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I picked up Scrum by accident as I didn’t expect to read about agile methodology. I just wanted to do twice the work in half the time as the subtitle suggests. It is an interesting history of how agile methodology come about.
Scrum has the potential to change the way I do things. It reminded me of Getting Things Done where it has changed the way I do things and has proven resilient throughout the years ever since I picked it up more than a decade ago. I have since tweaked it slightly based on the concepts introduced in Bullet Journal. If tweaking productivity systems is your thing, these books come highly recommended. The reason they stood the test of time is because the first is based on simple text files, and the other is based on paper. Working with text is also the reason I use blot.im as my preferred choice of publishing on the internet.
How to turn down a billion dollars and The ride of a lifetime are both books that provide historical accounts - one on snapchat, the other on Disney and how the Iger became the current CEO and shape the future of Disney. I now know why snapchat opens to a video taking format first, and how Marvel and Star Wars become part of Disney’s family.
The final How To book was a fun book to read, and became my light reading of the month. Randall Munroe is the wonderful and weird mind behind XKCD. If you haven’t checked that out, please do so.
