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Authors: Dustin Diaz Ross Harmes

Tags: web development javascript

2007-12-11

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Author: Cal Henderson

Tags: web development

2007-07-30

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Author: Ivan Ristic

Tags: web development security

2006-06-27

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Author: Seth Godin

Tags: marketing

2006-01-26

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Authors: Peter Morville Louis Rosenfeld

Tags: design web

2005-12-20

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Author: Joel Spolsky

Tags: development software

2005-09-02

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Type: technical

Status: I recommend

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

Description: Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant.Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.
Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like....

2005-08-30

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Type: technical

Status: to read

Authors: Erich Gamma Richard Helm Ralph Johnson John Vissides

Tags: design development code

Description: Design Patterns is based on the idea that there are only so many design problems in computerDesign Patterns is based on the idea that there are only so many design problems in computer programming. This book identifies some common program-design problems and explains the best ways that the authors know to solve them....

2005-08-29