Models of my life
by Herbert Alexander Simon · first published 1991
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- "Models of My Life" by Herbert A. Simon - "Poor Charlie's Almanack" by Charlie Munger
on “Ask HN: What books to read on developing mental models and increasing cognition?” ↗…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.
on “Ask HN: What “soft skills” books does your company buy for developers and why?” ↗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.
on “Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture” ↗For those that don't know, Herbert Simon wrote an autobiography called Models of my life. It's an interesting read.
on “Herbert Simon: The Architecture of Complexity (1962) [pdf]” ↗…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.
on “Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions” ↗Given the crowd, I'd strongly recommend Models of My Life by Herbert Simon.
on “Books for Young Leaders” ↗Herbert Simon's Models of My Life is in general interesting and has some very good sections on leadership, mostly in the research and academic world. I don't know that I would call it inspiring.
on “Ask HN: What are the most inspiring books on leadership?” ↗…economists (Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen) had been fit into the ceremony. Our chairman, Lee DuBridge, with anguish in his voice, spoke up, "You mean they sat on the platform with you?"' Herbert Simon, Models of My Life, Chapter 21, "From Nobel to Now" [edit: corrected "i" to "in"]
on “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2014” ↗…the theorems in Principia Mathematica which were proven laboriously by hand, by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, could in fact be proven by computation. According to Simon's autobiography Models of My Life, this application was originally developed first by hand simulation, using his children as the computing elements, while writing on and holding up note cards as the registers which contained the state…
on “My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)” ↗