Jason's Business By Bootstraps

Category: Books

  • Amazon reviews reveal more than you think

    I recently picked up The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money by Felix Dennis [Amazon affiliate link] on the recommendation of someone who understands that the road to success is indeed a narrow one. And, because the Amazon reviews were awesome. No, really, two of the five customer reviews, plus the […]

  • The iPad and the pricing paradox

    Here’s something weird: the Apple iPad has managed to make cheap things expensive and expensive things cheap. The expensive part’s easy. True story: I bought my first iPad because I had a meeting and I figured that displaying the pictures on it to the people around the table instead of trying to hook up a […]

  • Let’s not try to figure out how “rubies” mix in

    I’m sure I’m far from the first to make this observation, but I suspect Obie Fernandez had this planned for a few years: In related news, I’ve been working with Rails 3 (beta 4) for a while now and it’s saved me a ton of time, which is handy, since I have no time with […]

  • Is this a reflection of Amazon or Rands?

    I can’t decide if this is a fail or not: For those who don’t know, Managing Humans is an excellent book on management for computer people by the guy who runs Rands in Repose. Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game character from the early ’90s. I’ve had bosses in the past whose effectiveness would […]

  • Fordlandia: showing us how incremental the internet age really is

    I picked up Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (affiliate link) at the local library both because it was listed as a top ten business book of 2009 on some list somewhere and because the premise seemed so bizarre: Henry Ford once owned a chunk of the Amazon rainforest twice […]

  • This post is also not er, unless you’re on a terminal there

    It’s been a while, so I bring you this: the multi-step process to amusing yourself when you’re tired and burnt out and don’t really like computers but can’t think of anything else to do and your brain is buzzing too much to sleep. 1) Go to the Toronto Library website.  They’ve got a lot of […]

  • Stealing MySpace reviewed, briefly

    I’m not sure if I’ll have the time tonight to write what I want to write about, so here’s a link to the review I posted about Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin. Oh wait, the title of the book’s the link. That’s not Amazon affiliate […]

  • Free, like all business books, works except where it doesn’t

    I haven’t been following Chris Anderson’s work too closely.  I read (and enjoyed) The Long Tail, and I caught his intro piece on Free in Wired a while back, but I don’t read his blog regularly and most of the news I get these days comes from Twitter, which skews differently on any given day. […]