WGST's "The Sully Show" for 4/1/16 - Tech Books Make Great Reads

It may be April 1, but no April Fools here this week with "Limpert Tech" as Rick and Sully look at some tech-themed books that might make great spring or spring break reading material...

 


1.  The Car Hacker's Handbook

A high tech look at your car and how to protect it.

"The Car Hacker's Handbook" from No Starch Press as the first book to actually call out the dangers that lurk in modern connected cars.

The Car Hacker's Handbook is not just a technical guide for car enthusiasts and those with an interest in cybersecurity. If you work on, or modify cars, this book could be your Bible. For years, car manufacturers have been lax on talking about car security, so "The Handbook" brings this all out into the open. With chapters covering everything from diagnostics to embedded systems to how your vehicle can be "attacked," this guide is comprehensive and complete. This book is well organized and a call out to automakers and consumers.
The author, Craig Smith has worked for several auto makers over the years and has provided them with public research. He is uniquely qualified to be the author of this manual coming from Hive13 hackerspace and OpenGarages.org. He has spoken many times on "car hacking" and has put on workshops at RSA, DEF CON, and variou security conferences.
 


2.  The Best Team Money Can Buy  by Molly Knight

News-making, inside revelations about the tumultuous years when the Los Angeles Dodgers were remade from top to bottom—from the ownership of the team to management to the players on the field—becoming the most talked-about and most colorful team in baseball.

In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history. Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson and his partners hoped to put together a team worthy of Hollywood: consistently entertaining. By most accounts they have succeeded, if not always in the way they might have imagined.

Now Molly Knight tells the story of the Dodgers’ 2013 and 2014 seasons with detailed, previously unreported revelations. She shares a behind-the-scenes account of the astonishing sale of the Dodgers, and why the team was not overpriced, as well as what the Dodgers actually knew in advance about rookie phenom and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig and how they and teammates handled him during his first two roller-coaster seasons. We learn how close manager Don Mattingly was to losing his job during the 2013 season—and how the team turned around the season in the most remarkable fifty-game stretch (42-8) of any team since World War II, before losing in the NLCS. Knight also provides a rare glimpse into the infighting and mistrust that derailed the team in 2014, and resulted in ridding the roster of difficult personalities and the hiring of a new front office.

Knight also reveals new facts behind the blockbuster trade with the Red Sox. She paints an intimate portrait of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, probably the best pitcher in the game today, including details about the record contract offer he turned down before accepting the richest contract any pitcher ever signed.

Exciting, surprising, and filled with juicy details, Molly Knight’s account is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who wants the inside story of today’s Los Angeles Dodgers. - See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Best-Team-Money-Can-Buy/Molly-Knight/9781476776293#sthash.BlX2kQts.dpuf

 


3.  Advancing Innovation, by Patrick J. Stroh

This book is about advancing yourself in the high tech world we live in.  Innovation is hard work in our times, but if you are up to taking risks with yourself and your career, this book is great value for taking yourself to the next level.
 

4.  #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness

- Honest answers from Gary Vee
Gary Vaynerchuk—the inspiring and unconventional entrepreneur who introduced us to the concept of crush it—knows how to get things done, have fun, and be massively successful. A marketing and business genius, Gary had the foresight to go beyond traditional methods and use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience that continues to grow.

#AskGaryVee showcases the most useful and interesting questions Gary has addressed on his popular show. Distilling and expanding on the podcast’s most urgent and evergreen themes, Gary presents practical, timely, and timeless advice on marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, and everything else you’ve been afraid to ask but are dying to know. Gary gives you the insights and information you need on everything from effectively using Twitter to launching a small business, hiring superstars to creating a personal brand, launching products effectively to staying healthy—and even buying wine.

 

5.   Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose

By: John Addison, former co-CEO of Primerica and current president and CEO of Addison Leadership Group

John talks about what it means to be a “REAL Leader” – whether it comes to the next future leader of our country, or for your readers for themselves.
As Addison shares his experience, hard-won lessons and secrets to building rock-solid leadership in business and in life from his 25+ years at Primerica, including his leading the company through one of the most successful IPOs among others, he can not only discuss the nine core principles he deems necessary for success, but also can touch on:

-          Whether the potential candidates are truly “leading and living with purpose”

-          How leaders can be role models to their employees and maintain positive culture based on today’s volatile market

-          How new trends and changes in technology affecting leadership in the workplace

-          What millennials need to know as the new generation of leaders

 

 - Rick heading off to the Gulf of Mexico for Spring Break.....  New Orleans, Biloxi, etc  a working vacation.