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## Weekly Reading: March 22, 2015

22 Mar 2015

### Links

- True Tex-Mex Cuisine’s Long Adios—Texas Monthly : This piece tracing the ins and outs of the Tex-Mex restaurant scene (mostly in Houston) over the past few decades is essentially my life’s story in restaurants. Tex-Mex Cookbook is the best example I know of letting them share the spotlight.
- Just five bucks a month : Gina Trapani’s writeup of the exhausting process of having to write and rewrite the billing platform for ThinkUp seven times in the first year and a half or so of the product’s life was reminiscent of my own experience (on a smaller scale) with The Appendix and our billing and subscription needs.

### Books

- Scott Meyer. Off to Be the Wizard . Seattle, WA: 47North, 2014.

  I picked this up as an easy read having seen Glenn Fleishman recommend it on Twitter a few weeks ago.

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- Douglas Rushkoff. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age . Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press, 2011.

  These ten short provocations about living online and in a digital age cover ethics and etiquette in roughly equal parts all to set up the core ‘command’ that to participate in this world with purpose one must understand the perspective gained from understanding programming. I find this conclusion—that everyone could benefit from the perspective gained from relatively short exposure to programming—a great corrective to the “Everyone must code!” evangelism.

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