Read Books

 

Books that I'm reading or have queued up to start reading.

 

rereading reprocessing

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

 

reading first time

• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design

 

briefly browsed and want

• Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life (Paperback) by Len Fisher
• from having browsed this book, it is an *excellent* definitive introduction to game theory and why it is such an essential building block for understanding not just game playing, but human interactions in general, economics, and even social design principles (e.g. for social websites to build for MyNextStartup).

 

curious about

• Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil

 

recommended to me

• "The Three Body Problem" recommended by Timoni, 2015-361

 

recently read

2009

December

• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst (read most of it many years ago, finally finished it and extracted a bunch of common simple baseline style rules)

May

• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

April

• Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - George Lakoff

2008

September

• I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER -  LOLcat colleckshun by Professor Happycat & iCANHASCHEEZBURGER.COM
• Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith

August

• Watchmen by Alan Moore

 

read a while ago

• "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (highly recommended, good to re-read)
• "Tipping Point" by Malcom Gladwell (read most of it)
• See also: "Is the Tipping Point Toast?" - Fast Company magazine article discussing how Duncan Watts has apparently debunked the influencer hypothesis that Tipping Point perpetuates.

 

recommendations

• WebBooks - books for anyone looking to build/design/develop for the web

 

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