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We've seen a lot of makerspaces, coworking spaces, and event spaces spring up in Austin over the last decade. These have typically focus...

Wicked, Incomplete, and Uncertain: User Support in the Wild and the Role of Technical Communication By Jason Swarts In the late 1980s and ...

Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today By Ilana Gershon Work has changed considerably over the last f...

Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office By Elizabeth Keating and Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa Elizabeth Keating is a lingu...

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game By Michael Lewis Yes, I finally got around to reading Moneyball . It's a good story, comp...

Since 2012, I've been studying how entrepreneurs communicate, and especially how they persuade stakeholders. It's a fascinating topi...

Mind Over Machine By Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stewart E. Dreyfus I've been rereading some of the mid-1980s work that introduced activity ...

The Extended Mind Edited by Richary Menary Don't confuse this book with the one I recently reviewed with the same title by Robert K. ...

Recently I was asked to put together three videos and a webinar for graduate students at the program " Learning in and for the New Work...

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension By Andy Clark I'm pretty sure I picked this 2008 book up several yea...

On Justification: Economies of Worth By Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot This book was published in French in 1991 and in English in 2...

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd Edition By Lucy A. Suchman Lucy Suchman's Plans and Situated Actions ...

Decision Making in Action: Models and Methods Edited by Gary A. Klein, Judith Orasanu, Roberta Calderwood, and Caronline E. Zsambok Recent...

The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture By Robert K. Logan My friends, I use this blog to process my rea...

Culture and Thought: A Psychological Introduction By Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner Cole and Scribner published this book in 1974 for ...

The Psychology of Literacy By Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole This book was published in 1981, shortly after Cole helped Luria publish Co...

A Civic Entrepreneur: The Life of Technology Visionary George Kozmetsky By Monty Jones George Kozmetsky (1917-2003) “is most widely known ...

The Sustainability Edge: How to Drive Top-Line Growth with Triple-Bottom-Line Thinking By Suhas Apte and Jagdish Sheth This business book ...

New Wealth: Commercialization of Science and Technology for Business and Economic Development By George Kozmetsky, Frederick Williams, and V...

Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart and Josephine Smart This slim book (98pp. plus end matter) provides a useful, accessi...