Goodreads tracks yearling reading, so that makes right now a good time to review my top-marked books. According to the stats page, I read only 44 books in 2017, which seems low. I’m sure I did a poorer job than usual of keeping things updated.…
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Since I log all my reading on Goodreads, it makes it easy to keep track of what I really liked over the year. Here’s everything I marked as 5🌟 this year. How many of these have you read?
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham – Part of my deep read this year on management.…
A quote that reshaped my life came from a mathematical textbook.
I’ve remembered it as “what one fool can do, so can another,” but in full form it is:
…Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to teach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard.
Steve Silberman writes eloquently about the history of autism in his new book NeuroTribes, as well as in a TED talk (transcript) and various other articles. I think this resonates with me particularly, because I see a parallel in my own history.…
To promote my new book Misfits, I’m running a fun contest. The winner can name a character in the Time Travel Geek-out series. Put your name–or come up with another name–in the story alongside Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie.
This particular character name turns out to be an alias for what will be a recurring evil character throughout the series.…
Playing with the statistics on Goodreads. Apparently I read 115 books in 2014, 14 of which I rated as 5-star. Fourteen books that changed my life and/or I will definitely be re-reading at some point.
I’m working on formulating some more stats based on the data.…