In Theory, I'm Reading...

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Daniel Goleman

How we all (most of us) supposedly have a built-in Wifi-like system for dealing with the emotional state of other people.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

Three gentlemen who, in their own ways (math, illustration, and music), dealt with abstract ideas such as self-referencing, loops, and self-creating systems (autopoesis).

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software, Scott Rosenberg

Imperical evidence as to why building software (a relatively immature Discipline) can be frought with frustration, even with some of the best engineers.

Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, Cory Doctorow

More cool science fiction short stories.

But in practice, I'm watching the HBO series Rome and the documentary, Scratch.