Category: books
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Seth Godin’s Author Advice
As the author of a number of influential marketing books, Seth Godin knows what he’s talking about when it comes to writing and marketing a book. Advice for authors is a list of his top 19 tips. Lower your expectations. The happiest authors are the ones that don’t expect much. The best time to start…
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Busy? Movies and Books in a Minute
Don’t have the time to watch that new film or read that classic book? Got a minute? Movie-a-Minute Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles (1941) Orson Welles: Rosebud. (dies) Reporter: What does it mean? Everybody Else: We don’t know. THE END Book-a-Minute The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby: Daisy, I made all this…
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100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
In a different take on the book list ‘genre’, Martin Seymour-Smith’s 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written doesn’t list the books the author believes are ‘best’, but which have been the most influential. The list is ordered chronologically, and there are some novels present. I’ve read an embarrassingly small amount of these.
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The World is Flat – Audiobook Giveaway
The Other Side of Outsourcing is a Discovery Channel documentary by Thomas Friedman on high-tech outsourcing to India. In it Friedman visits a call centre in Bangalore to interview the young Indians working there, and then travels to an impoverished rural part of India where he debates the pros and cons of globalization with locals.…
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Secrets of Book Publishing
The author of Bit Literacy (one of the Startup Bibles) on the secrets of book publishing that they wish they had known: The publishers are not doing it for the love of books; they want something that sells. If your book will sell, it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about. Your main job – practically…
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The Startup Bibles
Want a crash course in entrepreneurship? Then read the startup bibles. [These books] range from academic textbooks to sales essays, recruiting tips to popular science. Each book and article provides insight into the skills needed to successfully run a startup. Recruit or Die (homepage) The Entrepreneurial Venture Don’t Make Me Think The Tipping Point (homepage)…
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Peopleware and Private Offices
A Field Guide to Developers is an article by Joel ‘on Software’ Spolsky. From reading this you can tell that Joel is a man who knows how to run a software house and how to keep staff happy. From it, I’ve also added another book to my reading list. Last year I went to a…
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2008 Penguin Design Award
The 2008 Penguin Design Award results are out and all of the designs are outstanding. Choice quotes from The Penguin Blog: ‘Good design costs no more than bad design’, said Penguin founder Sir Allen Lane. Something in the way visual communication courses are structured and delivered has fundamentally changed. We’re seeing a certain type of…
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Books That Changed Your Life
Lifehacker picked up on Kevin Kelly’s book list (one of the lists I wrote about here) and subsequently asked its readership what books changed their lives. The results were duly compiled in The Books That Changed Your Life. The top ten: The Bible The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)…
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Books on Behaviour, Irrationality, & Economics
I’m struggling to separate the wheat from the chaff in this list of books. I just know that hidden within some there must be a treasure trove of knowledge. The problem is: in which? Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions The Black Swan: The…