Models of my life

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1. cafardDec 2020
   Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana is about a way of life long gone, but it is well worth reading. As for the more recent merchant marine, Christopher Buckley's Steaming to Bamboola is very funny, and I suppose fairly accurate. For forest rangers, Norman Maclean's novella "USFS 1919", collected in A River Runs Through It, gives a picture of how it was then.

   August Fruge, longtime director of the University of California Press, wrote an excellent memoir, A Skeptic Among Scholars. There are many academic novels and memoirs, but I think very well of Alvin Kernan's In Plato's Cave. Also there is Herbert Simon's Models of My Life, which touches on academia and computing.

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2. cafardJun 2020
   They don't buy any. On my own, I've bought, and lent

   Peopleware by DeMarco The Psychology of Computer Programming, Secrets of Consulting, and Becoming a Technical Expert by Gerald Weinberg. Not exactly fitting into the category, but worth reading if you can find it: Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.

   A co-worker who left to become a consultant took the Weinberg books along with him.

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3. nickgrosvenorFeb 2018
   For those that don't know, Herbert Simon wrote an autobiography called Models of my life. It's an interesting read.
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4. cafardFeb 2016
   If you can find a copy of Herbert Simon's Models of My Life, have a gander at his remarks on Mies van der Rohe and assorted other architects.
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5. cafardDec 2012
   Given the crowd, I'd strongly recommend Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.
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6. sayemmNov 2011
   - "Models of My Life" by Herbert A. Simon

   - "Poor Charlie's Almanack" by Charlie Munger

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