Adrienne Porter Felt
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Adrienne Porter Felt is an engineering manager at Google, where she works on making Chrome easy to use. Currently, Adrienne leads Chrome’s data science and next generation user teams. Previously, Adrienne worked on usable security and HTTPS adoption, earning her recognition as one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35. Most of her academic publications are on usable security for browsers or smartphones. Adrienne earned her PhD from UC Berkeley, and her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.
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The Culture Map
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Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds ...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 20...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story of our time, and Fortune senior writers Bethany ...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—one of the most influential business books of all time—innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding com...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at it. Tech companies in general lack the experience, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. And the handful of books that share tips and tricks of engineering management don t explain how to supervise employees in the face of growth and change.In th...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of t...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
High Output Management
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The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. In High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove, former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel, shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. Born of Grove’s experiences at one of America’s le...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Apr 08, 2021
Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains ho...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Mar 04, 2021
Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Ch...
"My name is Marisol McDonald, and I don't match. At least, that's what everyone tells me." Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. And don't even think of asking her to choose one or the other activity at recess--she...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Jan 20, 2021
The Book of Koli
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Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly vines and seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He knows the first rule of surv...
Adrienne Porter Felt
Nov 02, 2020A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
City in the Middle of the Night by Anders
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Sapience by Alexis Lantgen
Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? by Tom O'Connor