A while back I read Charlie Munger’s “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”, and found the material itself (talks by Munger) mostly good, though the style in which it was edited and presented…

An austere white cover; a book I can’t look inside. Four blurbs on the cover, with cryptic design-related paragraphs from, or about, four different creators. Intrigue… In “Designing Design”, Japanese…

I’m not an “aspiring software craftsman”, at least not at the moment — so why does this book seem so interesting? It’s the first part of the title that caught…

This book, by Manuel Lima of the “Visual Complexity” website fame, “examines the more than eight hundred year history of the tree diagram, from its roots in the illuminated manuscripts…

Well, there are few helpful reviews of this one. But I have another book by Turchi — Maps of the Imagination: Writer as Cartographer — which I’ve flipped through just…

Subtitle: A Holistic Vision for Our Time. This is quite a short book, one of those books that proposes a simple yet powerful framework or way of looking at and…

This is “a classic work on the spread of new ideas” — describing the process by which innovation spreads, through early adopters on outward. And it covers an awful lot…

This book “argues that tacit knowledge—tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments—is a crucial part of scientific knowledge.” It’s actually quite short, around a hundred pages, with just three chapters….

I really enjoyed Steiner’s My Unwritten Books; he writes eloquently and eruditely about a dizzying array of topics. And I loved Hofstadter’s Le Ton Beau de Marot, which actually references…