One of the nicest things about taking a summer sabbatical (or siesta as my darling wife prefers to call it), is that I get to read books. Maybe I don’t read a bunch more when on vacation, but I do get to noodle with a book’s ideas more than I do when hard at work. The Element is a book I enjoyed thinking through.
» Read more: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
The Alchemist is a special book to a great many people, including me. The story has all the things that tend to happen in life when searching for something. It’s a fable I’ve already read twice. Might just read it every year till I’m gone…
A friend called me on my mobile the other day as I checked out of the library. He was surprised. I’m bookish, and have always bought a lot of books. I think he was surprised that I borrowed them too. Like many people I know, I started using the public library when I discovered their online system. Even folks like my friend, who live in big urban areas, might use their libraries more if they realized they were online.
I was fond of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind. So when The Adventures of Johnny Bunko came out, I was interested enough to get it from the library. Wow. Talk about a fun, focused look at the bullshit we basically all sign up for and then regret. If that doesn’t get you interested, click on the Johnny Bunko Trailer (yup, a book with a movie trailer, soon everyone will have one).
A book about blogging released in 2004, might as well be one of the dead sea scrolls considering how fast blogging and blogs have changed. However, Biz Stone’s “Who Let The Blogs Out?” is likely a classic. It is readable, useful (still!) and carefully lays out the basic premise of all collaborative software. No wonder Biz went on to become part of some, ehem, pretty interesting web companies (via Biz Stone’s blog). And I’m sure having such a cool name helped 
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