Computer Business

Listen to hilarious stories with serious lessons that Michael Lopp extracts from his varied and sometimes bizarre experiences as a manager at Apple, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, Symantec, Slack, and Borland. Many of the stories first appeared in primitive form in Lopp’s perennially popular blog, Rands in Repose. The third edition of Managing Humans contains a whole new season of episodes from the ongoing saga of Lopp's adventures in Silicon Valley, together with classic episodes remastered for high fidelity and freshness.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on artificial intelligence and machine learning, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand the future direction of AI, bring your AI initiatives to scale, and use AI to transform your organization.

In "Sponsor Magnet," sponsorship expert Justin Moore reveals the exact frameworks he uses to help creators transform their influence into predictable income through brand partnerships. This isn't another vague "build your personal brand" guide – it's your practical roadmap to landing and executing your dream sponsorships.

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. “A tour de force of shoe-leather...

In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell Labs scientists introduced concepts that still propel many of today’s most exciting technologies.

Ya seas un emprendedor aspirante, un propietario de negocio establecido que busca aumentar las ventas, o alguien que busca formas nuevas e innovadoras de generar ingresos adicionales, Máquina de Dinero ChatGPT es tu hoja de ruta definitiva hacia el éxito. Equípate con el conocimiento y las habilidades necesarias para navegar el emocionante mundo de la inteligencia artificial y transformar tus empresas en línea en fuentes de ingresos rentables y sostenibles.

In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze - remember when it seemed plausible that IBM's Watson could cure cancer? - to explain how businesses can put artificial intelligence to work now, in the real world.

Unlock new levels of business success with AI Profit Multiplier, your guide to leveraging the power of AI apps and chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. In this essential resource, you’ll discover how today’s most innovative digital entrepreneurs and business owners use AI to transform operations, increase productivity, and supercharge sales.

In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

In the era of constant online visibility, one misstep can tarnish a reputation built over years. Reputation Repair on Social Media is a crucial guide for individuals, businesses, and brands navigating the aftermath of a social media crisis. This book provides practical, actionable strategies for repairing your image, regaining trust, and transforming online misfortunes into opportunities for growth.

Are you ready to ride the AI wave and build real income from scratch? Whether you're a total beginner or a curious entrepreneur, AI Income Explosion gives you the exact blueprint to launch, scale, and profit — fast. This isn’t theory. It’s a step-by-step guide packed with proven strategies, automation tools, and income systems you can start using today.

Whether you're a total beginner or a seasoned entrepreneur, this 4-in-1 guide delivers everything you need to turn ChatGPT into a money-making machine. Inside, you'll discover step-by-step strategies to build passive income, launch profitable side hustles, and scale to full-time freedom using the world's most powerful AI tool.

Are you an entrepreneur or business leader, feeling overwhelmed by AI assistants, chatbots, machine learning, Agentic AI and the surge of Large Language Models, but don’t know how to make them work for your business? What if you could have repetitive and time-consuming tasks managed by Artificial Intelligence—freeing you, your team and your business to focus on innovation, strategic thinking, and next-level customer experiences? Whether you’re a total beginner or already know some AI basics but haven’t explored AI agents deeply, this book will guide you.

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about - and solving - an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri's ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars.

The Mobile Wave argues that the changes brought by mobile computing are so big and widespread that it’s impossible for us to see it all, even though we are all immersed in it. Saylor explains that the current generation of mobile smart phones and tablet computers has set the stage to become the universal computing platform for the world. In the hands of billions of people and accessible anywhere and anytime, mobile computers are poised to become an appendage of the human being and an essential tool for modern life.

The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in managed services. Now includes chapters on cloud services, bundling, and more. Whether you're a new computer consultant or an experienced technician making the move to managed services, this is the perfect audiobook for you! The audiobook includes step-by-step instructions for creating service offerings, reformulating your business, creating service agreements, and more!

Join the technological revolution that's taking the world of finance by storm. Mastering Bitcoin is your guide through the seemingly complex world of bitcoin, providing the knowledge you need to participate in the internet of money. Whether you're building the next killer app, investing in a start-up, or simply curious about the technology, this revised and expanded second edition provides essential detail to get you started.

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.