Rework is a business book that explains who your employees and your bosses age 20-35 do what they do, and/or how you should more effectively run your business, work day, and life.
Just finished Rework on Monday. Brilliant, and the model (for the most part) of what Generation X & Millennials want their jobs to be like, bosses to act like, and job fulfillment to feel like.
If you’ve got any recommendations, shoot ‘em.
I purchased Rework over the weekend and can’t put my Kindle down. Below I pulled a few of the chapter titles and quotes that struck a cord.
If you’re in a fast-paced, growing company, you’ll love this book. Those in the tech sector will find the book quite appealing due to the background of the authors. The work is the product of the brains behind the business, and the incredible blog at 37signals.
Gizmodo: Kindle Helps You Sleep, iPad Causes Insomnia
According to sleep experts, the iPad’s bright LCD display could be hampering your body’s ability to create melatonin. Translation: Insomnia. The Kindle and other e-ink devices, on the other hand, won’t disrupt your sleep cycle.
Any of you bought an iPad yet? As I’ve mentioned before, I’m sure there’s a purchase in my future, though after the 2nd or 3rd Generation iPads (read: better, cheaper, with all the bugs worked out) have been released.
One of the best summaries yet.
Almost everyone who described the iPad as a Kindle killer chose to ignore the fact that no matter how nice and shiny Apple’s screen technology is, it’s still not designed for reading books. Without e-ink, such as that found in the Kindle, you eyes get tired after a few pages – which is fine for replacing a newspaper, but is basically useless for a book.
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The iPad is emphatically not a serious readers’ device: the only people who would genuinely consider it a Kindle killer are those for whom the idea of reading for pleasure died years ago; if it was ever alive. The people who will spout bullshit like “I read on screen all day†when what they really mean is “I read the first three paragraphs of the New York Times article I saw linked on Twitter before retweeting it; and then I repeat that process for the next eight hours while pretending to work.†That’s reading in the way that rubbing against women on the subway is sex.
And yet, and yet. There’s no doubt that the iPad is a beautiful device for almost everything else. It’s perfect for reading newspapers – Alan Alan Rusbridger’s space-filling fanfic not withstanding – and it’s perfect for email and web browsing and movies and games. If you have to carry around one device – for your commute to work, for an hour in a coffee shop, or on a long-haul flight – then the iPad is the one to carry. Which is precisely why I’m so worried for the future of books, and for reading.
Received my advance copy of Delivering Happiness. The book is authored by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, one of the most successful dot-coms of the last decade.
The book is set for release on June 7. I’ll be peeling through it over the next few days. Hope to have a review up in the next couple of weeks.
Photos from the new Elliot Bay Bookstore location are up on Flickr. It’s gorgeous, but not as big as I though it was going to be.
Say hi to my new friend.
After a long search, I’ve selected what was my original crush: the Kindle DX.
Why? I read articles, blog posts, and PDFs. Lots of them. The Kindle is the premier device that is tried and tested by the gadget and publishing industries’ harshest critics. The DX has a larger screen and can handle the different maps, graphs, tables and Web pages in no-frills fashion. Through the use of the glorious Instapaper, I can save articles during the day and read them from the comfort of my Kindle in the evening.
But.. but.. but the iPad!
The iPad is overrated. I addressed my concerns the day it was released. Plus, I want a reading device. One that I can charge once every few weeks, take on trips, and hold comfortably in bed. I don’t need a catch-all device.
In the future (the not so far future) I foresee Apple working out the kinks in the iPad, producing a more attractive package in a second generation iPad or iMacSlate or iWhatever. When that happens, the $500+ price tag will be much more attractive. For now, the iPad ain’t killing the Kindle.
In addition, I work at dot-com… I stare at my computer 9+ hours a day at work alone, not to mention the time I spend working and playing on my computer when I get home. The thought of another LED back-lit screen makes my eyeballs itch.
The Kindle may turnout to be a piece of crap device that I see no value in and rarely use. Or, the Kindle may save my eyeballs and keep me off the computer. (That would make me happy.)
No matter the case, I’ll keep you updated as time progresses.
Mark Driscoll and Adrian Warnock talk about the resurrection from Adrian Warnock on Vimeo.
A good conversation between Adrian Warnock and my pastor Mark Driscoll on the Resurrection of Jesus.
The primary point: A Christian is one won who believes in the resurrection, and lives with the implications of that.
I would highly recommend picking up Driscoll’s new book Doctrine. However, if you enjoy video more, the Doctrine series sermons are here for free.
Walker County man writes about boyhood adventures in debut book. Title? Growing Up with Skid Marks
Catchy title, but I don’t know if it’s going to have the desired effect he wants.
Following-up on our conversation from last week, some goodies were revealed at CES last week.
Skiff is still my love, the bloggers fell in love with Plastic Logic QUE proReader, and here’s a good rundown of the e-readers at CES in general.
With Instapaper full-force in its support of e-readers, sitting around reading my saved articles on a glaring computer screen isn’t something I want to spend my nights doing anymore.
I want one. Now.
I left work early on Thursday (but who didn’t leave work early Thursday) in order to swing by BestBuy and Barnes & Noble to play with the Sony E-Reader and the Nook. The Nook feels incredible, but it didn’t get too high of a praise in the gadget world.
I read a lot of web articles, magazines, and PDFs (trade journals and older published works). Books? Not so much.
This is my new dream, unless the Apple unicorn tablet turns out to be for mobile computing what iPhone was for mobile technology.
Any of you who currently own (or are thinking about owning) one, comment below or shoot me an email with .
I got a list right now a mile long, but I’m thinking about bumping Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman to the front. Anyone read it yet?
The thought of e-readers has never tickled my fancy, but the leaked photos of the eBook from Barnes & Noble make me want to buy one right now.
“The best way to read is with book in lap, pen in hand, and pipe in teeth.”
- C.S. Lewis
A couple of new ones I have the best intentions of getting around to:
I’ve got my ever-growing list of books I want to read. Most I take a picture of with my cellphone in order to remember to buy them, only to flip through 20 pages while I decompress at Barnes & Noble.
Right now I’m reading a classic… most of you have read it at least once or twice: Harvard Business Review on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Less serious books are just around the corner.
What are you reading lately?
