Posts by Scott Barstow
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Simply one of the most compelling stories you'll ever read.
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In many ways, I grew up with Steve Martin. I listened to A Wild and Crazy Guy as a kid. The Jerk was one of the first R-rated movies I...
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I was somehow living under a rock and hadn't heard about this book. A tremendous story of avarice, corruption and abuse of power.
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Light read about New York high society. We listened to this book on a 10-hour car trip and it was a perfect fit. Don't know that I would've read it...
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I've done work with a large Syrian refugee community here in Raleigh and found myself wanting to know more about Islam. Excellent book on the historical context for Islam's rise...
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This series is look into daily life in Sweden through the eyes of Anita Sundstrom, a police detective in Malmo. I've read all nine of the books and found them...
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I read this book right after reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. It's completely different, and a lighter read. If you are a book lover like me, this is a...
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A great story about partnership, gaming, entrepreneurship and love all rolled up into one. I read this book in less than two days while on a short holiday and was...
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I have a not-so-secret love affair with all things Scandinavia. This book was a hilarious, yet incredibly insightful, read into the culture, economies and politics of the Scandinavian countries. Great...
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I've written previously about firing your CTO in a hostile situation and how to survive your CTO leaving. In this post I'd like to talk about the process you as...
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"Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does." W. Edwards Deming When your product and engineering team is struggling to deliver consistently, it is tempting to...
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"Any organization that designs systems will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." Melvin Conway One of the questions I've been asked most often,...
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On Decisions I was listening to the year-end episode of the All In podcast over the weekend. Though I don't love these kinds of "recap" shows, this show was great...
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A peek under the covers of Apple's design process as they built the iPhone keyboard
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The most common complaints in software product companies are typically some form of the below: "We're spending all of this money and I don't know what I'm getting" "Our team...
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Such a great and timely book given the times we are living through. A deep exploration of the history and importance of free speech, and the constant back and forth...
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Not too long ago, a company I know had a serious outage. The customer base was split across the old, legacy environment and the new public cloud, and there was...
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"Humans tend to read things as events rather than an outcome of a system that can be predicted." Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows When software systems are failing, we...