before we get started: Illustrate

I decided to learn Illustrator. My friend Anita was kind enough to spend an hour and a half with me tonight to show me the basics. I like it.

Books I've Read Since I Moved to Boston in September '08

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Alan Greenspan: The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan
Jumping the S-Curve by Paul Nunes and Tim Breene
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey
Arrow's Flight by Mercedes Lackey
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
The Social Animal by David Brooks
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Numbers Rule Your World by Kaiser Fung
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Twitter Wit by Nick Douglas
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel Pink
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Obliquity by John Kay
A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The Two-Second Advantage by Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
The Innovator's DNA by Clayton Christensen
2012
Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Matched by Ally Condie
John Adams by David McCullough
The Myth of the Garage by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki
Psion Gamma by Jacob Gowans
Psion Beta by Jacob Gowans
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Revolution by Ron Paul
Think! by Edward De Bono
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Ringworld by Larry Niven
The Quants by Scott Patterson
Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Little Bets by Peter Sims
The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
Tell to Win by Peter Guber
Gang Leader for at Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Brain Rules by John Medina
Linchpin by Seth Godin
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
A Disciple's Life: The Biography of Neal A Maxwell by Bruce C Hafen
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau
Tribes by Seth Godin
REWORK by Jason Fried and David Neinemeier Hansson
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
High Exposure by David Breshears
Raising the Bar by Gary Erickson and Lois Lorentzen
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eat Pray Love by Elisabeth Gilbert
No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen
2011
The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks
The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks
Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert E Heinlein
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mistborn by Brian Sanderson
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Open by Andre Agassi
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1776 by David McCullough
Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The Google Way by Bernard Girard
Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buzzmarketing by Mark Hughes
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferazzi
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Seizing the White Space by Mark Johnson
Tax-Free Retirement by Patrick Kelly
Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
The Knack by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham
Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Good Night by Michael Breus
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Wome
Live Rich by Stephen Pollan
E=MC^2 by David Bodanis
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
How to be Good by Nick Hornby
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Food Rules by Michael Pollan
Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Believing Christ by Stephen Robinson
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Chi Running by Danny Dreyer
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
--2010--
Made to Stick by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
Influencer by Kerry Patterson et al
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
A Geography of Time by Robert Levine
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
The Influentials by Jon Berry and Ed Keller
The Mormon Way of Doing Business by Jeff Benedict
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card (again... out loud, with Brooke)
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Yearning for the Living God by F Enzio Busche
The Peacegiver by James Ferrell
Variable Star by Spider Robinson
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Winning Decisions by Edward Russo and Paul Schoemaker
Grendel by John Gardner
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
things I learned about my dad (in therapy) by Heather B Armstrong
I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Who Really Cares by Arthur C Brooks
The E Myth Revisited by Michael E Gerber
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Swordfish by David McClintick
First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Jack: Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch
Gang Leader for at Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs
High Exposure by David Breashears
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Kick Me by Paul Feig
My Detachment by Tracy Kidder
Standing for Something by Gordon B Hinckley
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Die Broke by Stephen Pollan

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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