BOOKS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
Current Book: The Num3rati
Author: Steven Baker
Synopsis: Steven explores life in a fully classified, quantified, analyzed world. Beyond marketing and metrics, we are being described by the numbers. And for better or worst, the data and algorithms are only getting better.
Recent Book: Linked, The Science of Networks
Author: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Synopsis: This book is a little older now (2003) but its still relevant even today. It reads more like a master thesis on the emerging study of networks (human, machine and otherwise) and covers some powerful concepts for how connections are made, networks emerge and why some die. Albert Barabasi and Duncan Watts have a newer book out called “The Structure and Dynamics of Networks” which I plan to read sooner then later.