After reading The Game, this seemed like the next logical step. So far, it has been a pretty interesting expose on anatomy and nerve endings.

We just finished reading this book to Sophie (4 1/2). She loved it and it was a good read. There was almost always 1 laugh per chapter, which I’m discovering is important to Sophie. She likes funny descriptions, fights, accidents, and screwballisms, so all you budding chapter book authors, keep that in mind. I somehow remembered this book a bit sweeter than it was, and not so silly. I now think I’m remembering a different book about a swan in Central park? Any ideas?

For the first time, I wished All Consuming had a “Fuck yeah” option when asking me “was this worth consuming?”

I like political thrillers. And I never saw ET.

I’m reading this book on the recommendation of Jason Fried of 37 Signals. He claims this is the only book you have to read to learn how to be a great web designer. Surprisingly, based on his recommendation, the type is not really big.

This is the best book on software project management I’ve ever read. And it isn’t even a book on software project management.

I think most project managers don’t really understand they are in the design factory. Few large companies can identify their projects in inventory, understand their opportunity costs, or have any idea which queues are blocking progress. Once you understand the economic underpinnings of project management, decision become easier and often new organizational structures are easier to imagine. If the topic has any relevance to your area of employment, I think it will give you a leg up, as long as you have the means to implement the ideas it gives you.

I watched this, and I made my wife watch it. I’m ashamed. We weren’t even on a plane. And much as I wanted to like it, all I can muster is, better than Notting Hill.

When I briefly worked at Microsoft, our divisional leader had all the management read this book. Which was interesting. Not the book really, but the fact that we all had to read it. The message of the book is that business is full of self-deception. A good example is the guy on the airplane next to an empty seat who unfolds his paper to try and dissuade anyone from disturbing him and taking the empty seat. The deception is that this guy thinks no one notices he’s trying to block the empty seat, when in fact, we can all notice. It’s an interesting thing to think about all the self deceiving things that happen at work (and at Microsoft, there is obviously a lot of self deception going on) but I can’t say this book really did a great job of elucidating an interesting idea.

John Peel is a personal hero. Living in the UK in the mid 1990s, it was a pleasure to get to hear his radio show on a regular basis. Teenage Kicks!

Atlas Shrugged is one of those books with which you can divide humanity. I’m pretty willing to picks sides over this one. Here’s how it changed my life: it helped me understand why Plato thought the poets should be banned. It’s an apology for arrogance and selfishness, disguised as a subversive peek outside the cave.