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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Brilliance Audio)

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the …

Fascinating Theory with Practical Applications

Even though it's been a few years since I listened to this one, it often resurfaces in my thoughts. In short, the theory of #emotion presented in this book is powerful because of its flexibility and its ability to explain: - how #reframing is even possible - how there can be such large #emotional differences between cultural groups - how it could have been possible that the way humans construct emotion has changed over the course of #history

Pascal G. Zachary: Showstopper the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Paperback, 2009, Free Press)

It's incredible to me that Microsoft was dog fooding NT with the NT dev team in early-1991. First stage was when it was just a CLI without networking. Then graphics but no networking. Then all three. Looking forward it made sense since shipping to production was supposed to be mid-1992 but knowing it didn't get out the door until Q3 1993 it's impressive how raw a state it was in when they were in the "build the aircraft as we fly it" mode. #windows #history #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing