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Great Movies About Design

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Design is an overloaded word, but we all get it when we see or experience it. For software design and achieving usability the basics of design are indespensible. Understanding why things are placed the certain way and have certain color is important.

Reading about it is great, and I highly encourage you to buy Non-Designers Design Book, but if you prefer to watch something in the moments of relative downtime, below is the list of movies about design.

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

IBM was not on the top of my list for doing my entrepreneurial studies, and somehow I learned about this book by accident.

Not only was this book great, but it’s also written by Louis Gerstner, who’s an ex-CEO of IBM.

Think of it as a first person shooter, where a main guy (you) is the CEO, and problems are the monsters in a game.

You should take a look at it, if you ever want to do something entrepreneurial, and especially if you’re in business that needs changing.

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This book is an excellent take on the strategies of great CEOs. I don’t remember how I learned about it, but I believe it was The Snowball.

Most of people from this book were fairly unconventional, and against the per-book approach of management.

Great part of the book is a breakdown of capital allocation and capital preservation strategies.

Author did an excellent role in researching leaders who previously haven’t been covered in the literature. For example, the Henry Singleton of Teledyne is pretty mysterious, but his results were pretty impressive.

Design for hackers

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This book would be fine if you aren’t impatient.

Contrary to what one could think, seeing the title, it’s less targeted towards hackers.

I’d expect that it’s directed towards technical people, who may not be interested in the whole story and knowledge of the art history.

So I was disappointed. So will you.

Much better is the “Non-designers design book”. Why? It’s shorter and more to the point, if you want to build products, and you want to get fast 101 on design.