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February 26, 2019

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried

In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced a new path to working effectively. Now, they build on their message with a bold, iconoclastic strategy for creating the ideal company culture—what they call "the calm company." Their approach directly attack the chaos, anxiety, and stress that plagues millions of workplaces and hampers billions of workers every day.

Software Wasteland: How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises by Dave McComb

Enterprise IT (Information Technology) is a $3.8 trillion per year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste.

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was, in a word, screwed. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the vague role of "marketing fellow." What could go wrong?