Audible: I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan

Audible: I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan [a fictional autobiography from, and read by, Steve Coogan’s character Alan Partridge). If you’re at all familiar with the work of Alan Partridge, you’ll know what to expect here. A man so narcissistic that he can narrate the birth of his son, and insert anecdotes about …

book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Even though I read the sequel when I was a child, I’d never actually read the more famous prequel. As it turns out, it probably only takes about an hour to read in its entirety – it’s a very short, dark, child-friendly tale, hard to read without hearing the songs and picturing the visuals of …

book: the laws of simplicity

Book: The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) John Maeda has worked in industry, and more recently as a design teacher at MIT. I grabbed this book from the library from a recommendation from the Boagworld podcast. It’s a short read (only 100 pages) but provides a helpful framework for thinking about how to …

book: the filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you

Book: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (2011) Being surrounded by vast expanses of content is so commonplace now that we are no longer amazed by it. If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about today?” “I possess a device, in …