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I just finished New Sales Simplified:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Sales-Simplified-Prospecting-Devel...

If you are responsible for getting new business, it is probably the best sales book I have read. Walks through defining your target customers, creating appropriate messaging to reach out to those customers and how to structure discovery and presentation calls.


Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


Better buy Webstorm now so I can get it as a perpetual license.

I can see October being a huge month where people buy perpetual copies of tools they were thinking about buying in the past.


I just finished The Charisma Myth:

http://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magneti...

On audio book and immediately bought a physical copy. The book is filled with tips and tricks to increase your charisma that can be applied right away.


Great book, author stopped by Stanford entrepreneurship class so you can watch her talk here http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3005


Seconding. I found it an invaluable read, as well. It dispels quite a few invisible myths.


Peter Norvig's Artificial Intelligence:

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approac...

Has plenty of examples in Python. You can also look at different Udacity courses. They have a couple dealing with ML with Python.


I have Norvig's book, I'm not sure I'd recommend that as an introduction ;) Awesome book though!


AIMA is about as introductory as these texts get (and still be valuable). It in an undergrad textbook after all.


I guess my point is that it's such a broad overview of all topics that fall under artificial intelligence that you don't get much of a good introduction to applying machine learning. But point taken, you're right, it is an introductory text.


That is the "warranty" section of the license. Most software contracts as a standard have the warranty section in all caps. Source - I sell a database and deal with software contracts on a weekly basis.


I am currently going through CS50 online. You can join through edX or here:

https://cs50.harvard.edu/

Pretty good first steps intro that eventually goes into algorithms and data structures.


A.M. Train Ride - Creative Thinkering

- Just okay

P.M. Train Ride - Counter Hack Reloaded

- so far so good. a little dated but a good intro to security.

Audiobook - 48 Laws of Power

- I love the history lessons in it. Very engaging. You don't have to be power-hungry to read it.

Digital Book at work - The Art of Software Security Assessment

- Just started, I will let you know next month.


Awesome! I did not realize 2014 was posted. I was planning on going through 2013:

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveSecurity/lectures.ht...

In April. The texts for that class are "Hacking" and "Counter Hack Reloaded"


Hacking: The Art of Exploitation would be a good place to start.


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