So many interesting subjects - so little time.
Here are some of the books I have read or podcasts I have listened to, so far, and maybe worth your time
'17 Thinking, Fast and Slow
'17 Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food
'17 The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
'16 The Economic Rockstar : 104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments
'16 How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
'15 The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
'15 Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
'15 Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
'15 Matters of Life and Data: The Remarkable Journey of a Big Data Visionary Whose Work Impacted Millions (Including You)
Dec '14. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Dec '14. Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Nov '14. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Sep '14. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Aug '14. Bioinformatics Algorithms
Aug '14. Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, and More
Aug '14. Selling to VITO the Very Important Top Officer: Get to the Top. Get to the Point. Get to the Sale
Aug '14. Ties to Tattoos : Turning Generational Differences into a Competitive Advantage
Jun '14. The Intelligent Web: Search, smart algorithms, and big data
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ
FISH! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Personal Accountability: Powerful and Practical Ideas for you and your organization
The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want
Leading Change
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides)
Big Trouble
The Lore of Running
Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal
Getting Even
Concept of the Corporation
Without Feathers
Side Effects
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Management Cases, Revised Edition
My Years with General Motors
The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation
Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design
The Lean Design Solution
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Accounting Course, 4th Ed (McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses)
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality
ABC of Relativity (Routledge Classics)
The Conquest of Happiness
The Problems of Philosophy
On Growth and Form
Leonardo's Notebooks
The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications: The Comprehensive RF Engineering Reference [With
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
What to Listen for in Music
Warfighting
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Memory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
The Hanging Stranger
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism
Twist of the Wrist: The Motorcycle Roadracers Handbook (Vol 1)
The Racing Driver (Driving)
The Ace Factor: Air Combat and the Role of Situational Awareness
Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving
Ubik
Tune to Win: The art and science of race car development and tuning
Georgics (Oxford World's Classics)
The Daodejing of Laozi
The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)
Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)
The Power of One: A Novel
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.)
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Vintage)
The Italians
The Alice Behind Wonderland
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Understanding China [3rd Edition]: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
'17 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
'17 Trainspotting
'17 Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
'16 The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
'16 The Kid Who Ran For President
'15 Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
'15 Macbeth
'15 The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results
Oct '14. Texas Lawn Guide: Attaining and Maintaining the Lawn You Want (Guide to Midwest and Southern Lawns)
Sep '14. Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management
Jul '14. Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Jul '14. The Principles of Scientific Management
The Business of Software : What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad
Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
Manufacturing Systems Engineering: A Unified Approach to Manufacturing Technology, Production Management and Industrial Economics
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Managing the Nonprofit Organization
The New Realities
Robot Builder's Bonanza
Schott's Original Miscellany
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 2: Advanced Techniques
Frozen Fire
Fahrenheit 451
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD : How You Can Be More Creative
The Usability Engineering Lifecycle: A Practitioner's Handbook for User Interface Design (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
On Bullshit
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects, Vol. 1: The Essentials (3rd Edition, Version 6.5)
Category 7
Mere Anarchy
Co-Opetition : A Revolution Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation : The Game Theory Strategy That's Changing the Game of Business
The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society
The Future of Industrial Man
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (Classic Drucker Collection)
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Analysis for Financial Management
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland (paperback)
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
I Am America (And So Can You!)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies: Battle And Tactics Of Chinese Warfare
Managing
The Buck Starts Here: Profit-Based Sales and Marketing Made Easy, Second Edition
The Leaky Funnel
Escaping the Black Hole: Minimizing the Damage from the Marketing-Sales Disconnect
Animal Farm and 1984
The 25 Sales Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople
The 25 Most Common Sales Mistakes: . . . And How to Avoid Them
SPIN Selling
Speaker for the Dead
Major Account Sales Strategy
Conversations That Win the Complex Sale: Using Power Messaging to Create More Opportunities, Differentiate your Solutions, and Close More Deals
Management Rev Ed
Selling to the C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You to Know About Successfully Selling to the Top
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
My Hero
Rick Steves' Pocket Paris
Easy French Step-by-Step
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)
The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help--or Hurt--How You Lead
Lazarus
The Shoes of the Fisherman (Vatican Trilogy, Book 1)
The Clowns of God
My book, People: Managing Them (and Yourself) Effectively is now published on Amazon
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Update: July 2017 - The book is now published and available on Amazon. It is great to have completed the journey.
Update: Feb 2017 - I am finished. It has improved with age, but who knows if anyone will actually agree. Anyway, I am proud of having made it this
far and I do feel a great sense of achivement. Next I will spend some time looking for an agent and/or publisher. If that does not work I will self-publish just to complete the whole cycle.
Update: Oct 2016 - Cleaned up two chapters and added another. I am determined it will not die of neglect, maybe old age :)
Update: June 2016 - I have been buried in work and spend only fragments of time on the book, although I did add another chapter.
Update: Feb 13th 2016 - Will it ever end? Added another few chapters in Jan
Update: Aug 2nd 2015 - I have been stuck for a while doing other things. I plan to get back to this soon.
Update: Jan 28th 2015 - Round 4 of edits completed - one more to go.
Update Dec 14 2014 - It is now going to run into 2015, but it is improving with some loving care.
Update: Nov 3th 2014 - Still slogging away. If you are considering putting pen to paper to write a book, stop, think again, stop, under estimate the time
and effort - but do it anyway.
Update: September 3rd 2014 - Editing continues - I see more updates in my near future.
Update: August 8th 2014 - I AM FINISHED! (again). Well let's see what my editor thinks now. Fingers crossed.
Update: July 5th 2014 - The next round of edits have been completed by Marianna and I am now working hard to make all of the needed updates and additions. It is a long process but I expect it will all be worth it in the end.
Update: May 24th -
My editor
is the brilliant Marianna Jameson, the New York Times bestselling
author. You can read more about Marianna and her books and editing services on her
website at The Book Spa