Favorites
Books | Technical and Fun:
Crossing the Chasm – A must read for any high tech startup company. As an engineer at heart, I loved getting the inside scoop about how to think about marketing a high tech startup, how to target "beachheads" and eventually conquer your space.
The Four Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss authors a New York Times Best seller on how to optimize your life, and instead of living to work, work to live. A really fun and inspiring read on how to have your cake and eat it too!
Founders at Work - Interviews with the founders of some of the most famous technology startup companies. Yahoo, Hotmail, PayPal, and many others are covered. It is fun to read about these startup’s early days from the people that were there in their own words. The interview style format is great, because you can put it down and easily come back whenever you have time for a quick chapter or two.
Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur – Well written, and unassuming for the reader with no business background. Throughly interesting, excellent case studies, and a lot of solid and helpful information.
Dreaming in Code - Two dozen programmers, Three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software.
The Millennium Problems – A quick and fun way to learn about the 7 mathematical puzzles that offer a $1,000,000.00 prize to the solver!
Fermat’s Enigma – A fast paced, fun read about Pierre de Fermat, and the mystery behind his famous proof: xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions when n=0.
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number – All the mind boggling ways PHI, the never ending, never repeating number (1.61833…) is intertwined in our world through nature, architecture, art and more! Not as "fun" as Fermat’s Enigma, but lots of really cool information and neat numerical tricks.
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer - Interesting historical read on this character. Good descriptions of Turing Machines and how they were developed.
Books | Just for fun:
All Souls – A captivating tragic tale of one boy’s life growing up in South Boston. MacDonald’s conversational style of writing wraps up the reader in the humor and sorrow in his life.
Easter Rising – The sequel to All Souls, more reflective of how MacDonald rose up amidst the violence in his life.
Favorite sites:
John Patrick East - The Man, the Myth, the Legend. His life, in his own words … and man does he have a lot of them for a newborn!
Sweet Briar College – My almamater.
My publications:
IBM Redpaper: Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring
The View (May/June 2006): Getting the most out of Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices.