Amazon Recommendations Considered Harmful

With apologies to the GOTO statement, the recomendation below is truly harmful. PAT CONROY ?!?!!?! The flanking books I can see, but Pat Conroy? I admit that I once read “Prince of Tides,” but I was on vacation at a house with a limited library. Pat Conroy v. Danielle Steele; Conroy wins that one. But [...]

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Reading List (2009) – March

From the list below I would highly recommend: Pollan’s In Defense of Food and Friedman’s The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth. Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed Beyond Bullshit: Straight-Talk at Work (Culbert 2008) – 3/2 The Age of Heretics (Kleiner 2008) – 3/9 The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Friedman [...]

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Reading List – 2009 (February)

Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, (Suskind 2008) – 2/7/2009 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Pinker 2007) – 2/22/2009 Tribes (Godin 2008) 2/23/2009 The elephant, the tiger, and the [...]

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Reading List – 2009 (January)

Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed Angler, (Gellman 2008) – 1/4/2009 Hot, Flat and Crowded, (Friedman 2008) – 1/14/2009 When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris 2009) – 1/21/2009 How Fiction Works (Wood 2009) – 1/26/2009 Imperial Life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq’s green zone (Chandrasekaran 2006) – 1/28/2009 McSweeney’s [...]

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Off to a good start

Thanks to my Mom for seeding the 2009 reading queue with a nice selection of books.

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Book links

Book linking policy I do link to an Amazon affiliate store. If you purchase a book through that link, Amazon throws me a few coins I’m open to the idea of making money but I want to give you choices if you don’t like that idea. This is how book links work on this site [...]

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Have you read more than six of these books?

Have you read more than six of these books? I found this list on Laura K’s blog. In David Wienberger’s “Everything is Miscellaneous“, he points out that Sam Anderson “maintains that the bottom of your queue of movies to rent from Netflix.com is ‘the person you want to be—Eraserhead, the eight-hour BBC Bleakhouse, the complete [...]

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Books for the queue

The Economist has a review of C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan’s new book, “The New Age of Innovation” [wc] [site] as well as Charles Leadbeater’s “We-Think” [site]. C. K. Prahalad has written for SMR in the past, (his 2003 article “The New Frontier of Experience Innovation” is featured in this edition of the Wall St. [...]

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