A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder
Another one of those books I picked up at the library, enjoyed reading for a couple of hundred pages, and then lost track of in one of my book piles. Enjoyable critique of today’s organizing and de-cluttering mania. Abrahamson and Freedman make some good points. Most interesting to me are the real world examples of businesses that succeeded because the avoided the high overhead of being tidy.
Scott Rosenberg’s enjoyable account of a troubled software development project. Reading it put me in mind of David Pye’s comment in a book about design – something to the effect that everything we make is really a failure, because it is a compromise.
I am probably more sympathetic to buggy software after reading Dreaming in Code, but I don’t expect it to last.