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The Elements of UML 2.0 Style by Scott W. Ambler
What it is about: This is a small book with all the elements of UML formalisms that you will likely ever need unless you are into...
Miguel Pinilla
Jun 4, 20241 min read
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The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
What it is about: The Culture Map walks you through the wide spectrum of societal norms, traditions and expectations that inform so much...
Miguel Pinilla
May 22, 20241 min read
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Measure What Matters by John Doerr
What it is about: The book that made OKR's accessible to everybody. It does not need introduction. It is actually a fairly quick read...
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May 14, 20241 min read
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Supply Chain Science by Wallace J. Hopp
What it is about: The companion book to Manufacturing Physics, this time focused on how to rigorously understand the core behaviors of...
Miguel Pinilla
May 7, 20241 min read
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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 by David A. Hounshell
What it is about: In my view, this is the definitive account of how America's manufacturing was formed in the 19th century and emerged...
Miguel Pinilla
Apr 30, 20241 min read
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Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar... by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
What it is about: A tour de force through (mostly western) philosophy, all seen through the lens of jokes and humor that really manage to...
Miguel Pinilla
Apr 23, 20241 min read
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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What it is about: A follow up to The Black Swan by the same author. He dives into the underlying principles of the effects the first book...
Miguel Pinilla
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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Strategic Networks: Creating the Borderless Organization by J. Carlos Jarillo
What it is about: The companion book to Strategic Logic this time focused on emerging multi-company organizational structures. In the...
Miguel Pinilla
Apr 9, 20241 min read
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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
What it is about Dr. Kahneman recently passed away. He left us with an enormous contribution to understanding ourselves that I can only...
Miguel Pinilla
Apr 2, 20242 min read
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Market-Based Control: A paradigm for Distributed Resource Allocation by Scott H. Clearwater
What it is about: A series of case studies for application of market based algorithms (think Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Optimums, ...) to...
Miguel Pinilla
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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The Head Game by Philip Mudd
What it is about Philip Mudd served as a staff member in the National Security Council and as a senior executive at the FBI and CIA. He...
Miguel Pinilla
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
What it is about Another book by Dr. Goldratt, not as well known as The Goal. This time he applies his Theory of Constraints to what...
Miguel Pinilla
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim
What it is about: A data driven, rigorous analysis of performance of R&D organizations, free from religious pronouncements so frequent in...
Miguel Pinilla
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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The Warehouse Revolution. Automate or Terminate by Pete Devenyi, Miguel Pinilla and Jim Stollberg
This post is not a book recommendation, it is to announce the release of the book The Warehouse Revolution (Automate or Terminate)...
Miguel Pinilla
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel
What it is about: Professor Sandel poses the question of whether there are things that cannot be reduced to a monetary value or an...
Miguel Pinilla
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
What it is about: "Excellence in statistical graphics consists of complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision, and efficiency" is...
Miguel Pinilla
Feb 19, 20241 min read
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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What it is about: The Black Swan is two masterclasses condensed into one book. One in probability and statistics and another on how we...
Miguel Pinilla
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Structure of Society by Julian Marias
What it is about: In recent times, we all find ourselves talkeing about "social norms". Whether they are a beneficial thing that allows...
Miguel Pinilla
Feb 5, 20241 min read
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The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology by James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker
What it is about: While is may seem that Agile methodologies now enjoy the status of incumbent in product design and development, this...
Miguel Pinilla
Jan 29, 20241 min read
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Decoding your STEM Career by Peter Devenyi
What it is about: Dilbert has popularized the existential difference between "smart engineers" and clueless "pointy haired bosses"....
Miguel Pinilla
Jan 22, 20241 min read
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