How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie’s Guide to Key Technology Concepts

I read the 1st edition a year ago and although I really enjoyed the book, it did feel slightly outdated. This second version includes 5 new chapters on topics like mobile, ioT, AI/ML, blockchain and AR/VR. Great for people like me who conceptually understand technology well but want to read a comprehensive book so they can more easily understand the details under the hood...

You can’t turn around today without reading, hearing (or in this case writing about) Big Data, web applications or Social Media.If you are an anointed one working in Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley or Silicon “add your local landmark of choice”, understanding technology is like understanding how to breathe - you just do it.For the rest of us luckily there are books like Vinay Trivedi’s How to Speak Tech. Vinay is clearly a techie, but he also understands that what is taken for granted in some quarters might as well be quantum mechanics in others.Using the idea of what a non-techie might face when trying to get their company or team to build an internet application from scratch, Vinay walks us uninitiated through everything from front-end development (the stuff we see when we cruise the web), back-end development (how all that goodness comes from servers to our eyeballs) and associated issues like debugging, scalability and internet security.The book is a quick read and will give any interested reader a basic primer on internet technology and build processes. Although minor grammar and editorial mistakes mar some chapters, the overall usefulness of the book for non-techies cannot be overstated.I’m glad I read it and I’m sure those looking to get educated on the web would find value as well.

How to Speak Tech has made concepts such as Blockchain, AI, and VR much more accessible to aspiring entrepreneurs like myself. In a fast-moving world where tech can become a barrier, Trivedi simplifies key technological terms and puts them into context. The book has definitely helped me to get a better understanding of what the techies are talking about!

great primer. this book offers the right level of detail across the right scope to orriemt the non-technicsl reader.

An excellent book that explains a wide variety of technical terms. Perfect for those who need a concise tutorial on technology concepts.

Very well written for a novice. Covers several topics you would have questions about

As a finance student trying to learn more about the tech sector, this book serves as a great primer. There are few typos in the books. But overall, the language is simple and the materials are easy to understand. It's a short book of IT 101, and you get to learn something about different programming languages, what are front-end, back-end, and database, debugging process, etc. Any finance/business major who wants to get into technology banking or work in a startup should read this book. The book doesn't have any graphics, but the author recommended "How The Internet Works" if you want further details. That book covers a lot more topics with graphics, and I'd recommend it after you finish "How to Speak Tech."

Great and accessible intro to technology! As a technical person, I picked this up hoping for a more accessible mental model across topics, and this satisfied me. In particular, I loved the IoT chapter - great intro to a space that’s confused me.

Not at all recommended. When u spend 2099/- for a book, u expect it to be some detailed thing. This book comes as a shcoker, nothing but a compilation of what is available all across Google. Anyone asking above 200/- rs for this college guide is criminal and cheat.

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