Information Investment: Tufte
Seems like everyone else is reading Edward R. Tufte, so I thought it would make sense to take a peek. Pretty interesting. And the volumes themselves are completely beautiful.
One of the prejudices that’s tough to get beyond is that books older than, say, a year aren’t particularly relevant to the IT world. That’s often true, but not always. What I’ve read so far has been very applicable even though these books are from last century.
Another is that the web is so distinctly different than everything else that the old rules don’t really apply. That’s only marginally correct and, as everything matures and the web stops feeling so separate, will likely become less true.