About ME
Jim AdamsSearch
Recommended Books
Michael Lewis: The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Robert M. Sapolsky: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Ed Yong: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Craig Lambert: Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Matthew B. Crawford: The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Jeff Madrick: Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
Nate Anderson: The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed
Frank R. Wilson: The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
Douglas Rushkoff: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
James L. Adams: Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer
Clive Thompson: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Alice E. Marwick: Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Susan Cain: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
George Dyson: Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Vintage)
Evgeny Morozov: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Scott McCloud: Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Peter Marsh: The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production
Robert Skidelsky: How Much is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
Michael J. Sandel: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
James L. Adams: Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer
Oded Shenkar: Copycats: How Smart Companies Use Imitation to Gain a Strategic Edge
Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Paul Bloom: How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Richard H. Thaler: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
James Adams: Good Products, Bad Products: Essential Elements to Achieving Superior Quality
Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Sylvia Nasar: A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
James L. Adams: Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Categories
- Aesthetics, Elegance, and Sophistication (51)
- Books (59)
- Craftsmanship (93)
- Creativity and Innovation (199)
- Current Affairs (76)
- Design (286)
- Education (40)
- Emotions and Needs (52)
- Engineering (270)
- Global Constraints (45)
- Good Products, Bad Products book (55)
- Human fit (107)
- Internet (44)
- Making, Fixing, and Tinkering (65)
- Management (263)
- ME 314 Stanford Course 2012 (13)
- ME 314 Stanford Course 2013 (16)
- ME314 Stanford Course 2011 (2)
- ME314 Stanford Course 2014 (5)
- People (280)
- Performance, Cost, and Price (42)
- Problem Solving (101)
- Product Quality (273)
- Science, Technology, and Society (90)
- Stanford Good Products Bad Products Course (24)
- Symbolism and Cultural Values (32)
- The nature of technology (166)
- Working with the hands (75)
Recent Comments