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Bragging

So… I’m very proud to brag about my brother John whose second book from O’Reilly was just released: Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time.  He’s done a great job bringing together some of the best ideas and the best peeps to talk about the best ideas in web operations here.  I remember being in [...]

The Last Lecture

On my way to Chicago, I was delayed by two hours.  This gave me enough time to read The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch.  I think this is a very naked book, that has no pretense.  And it made me think, which is exactly what it was meant to do.  I appreciated having the airport [...]