I wanted to get an early start on my reading goal of 24 book this year and didn’t feel like doing much of anything on New Year’s day so I burned through this compilation of (very) short stories about time. Einstein’s Dreams is essentially a series of though exercises on how our reality would change [...]

I have had The Back of the Napkin for awhile and even tried to read it a couple of times, but for some reason I had trouble really getting into it. I found this to be a little odd since the topic of “Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures” is essentially what I do [...]

I picked this up at a used book store in Hood River, OR as I had just finished Making Ideas Happen and wanted something a little different. While Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature presents itself as the authors struggle to define an abstract corner of math that deals with symmetries in 10 [...]

In ReWork the founders of 37 signals discuss the problems with the work place status quo and how new entrepreneurs can avoid these traps and create a successful business in the modern day. Most of their lessons are in the form of their experiences starting and building 37 signals.
It’s a pretty interesting look at how [...]

I picked up Crush It! on a recommendation from my friend Jonny Arkin and the fact that I had followed the exploits of the author Gary Vay-ner-chuk over the last couple of years. Gary’s back story is that he took his father’s business, “Shopper’s Discount Liquors”, from a $4,000,000 a year business to $20,000,000 through [...]

I though it was about time I get to some professional education reading and decided to finish a book I had started last year but could never quite complete (yes it still counts towards the total). As a designer communication is probably the most important skill you can have. I have always been a fan [...]

Book: Ender’s Game
Fiction

First things first. About 80% of the books I read are non-fiction. I rarely pick up a “Story” unless recommended to me. I figured since I am trying to read 24 books this year it would be good to switch up my professional development reading with some fiction.
This was a suggestion from one [...]

The Dip

As part my continuing 2010 goal of reading 24 books this year I picked up Seth Godin’s The Dip. I actually bought it about a year ago with a bunch of other impulse book purchases and just never got around to reading it. But since I had slacked since burning through Ender’s Game I [...]

As part of my master plan for 2010 I made a challenge to myself to read 24 books this year. I figure two books a month isn’t incredibly taxing yet high enough to ensure I can’t slack for days at a time. So why am I telling you? Well, they say if you want to [...]

The book that put global outsourcing in context is now available as a free audio book. From now until August 4th, you can download Thoms Friedman’s book The World Is Flat and receive an exclusive audio preview excerpt of his new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded.
Just go to this link and sign up.  You will [...]