1. What I should be Reading

    In preparation for a three-week trip, I asked Twitter what I should be reading. Here’s what was recommended: 

    - @AmarDPatel: Blood Meridian

    - @brendanbaker: Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations

    - @jesswlin: The Master Switch

    - @zachklein: A Splendid Exchange

    - @danielzarick: The Dharma Bums and What is a Designer

    - @1807B: The Bed of Procrustes, Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks, The Timeless Way of Building, and The Poetics of Space

    - @etiennetaylor: The Memory Chalet

    - @ejbert: The Big Short

    - @gordonbowman: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

    - @AllenPenn: The Blue Sweater

    - @nedrockson: The Worst Hard Time and OK

    - @timothyarnold: The Instructions

    - @mlz: What Technology Wants and The Rational Optimist

    - @David: Too Big to Fail, The Facebook Effect, Work Hard. Be Nice., and Five Frogs on a Log

    - @wesleyverhoeve: The Island at the Center of the World

    - @Ellwheeler: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? and The Power of One

    - @gsiener: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

    - @JaredHecht: Childhood’s End

    - @reecepacheco: Dove

    - @spencerfry: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

    - @gabrielwinant: The Origins of the Urban Crisis, City of Quartz and Manhattan Projects

    - @birsic: Books by Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and David Foster Wallace

    - @jericsinger: A Confederacy of Dunces, Then We Came to the End, The White Album, and Spycraft

    - @knarusk: Brave New World, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, 2666, and The Code Book

    - @FacensBuddenbrooks

    If you’ve got something to add, please comment below or via @reply. Thanks!

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Notes

  1. david-noel said: Too Big To Fail, The Facebook Effect, Five Frogs On A Log, Work Hard. Be Nice. Thanks for your list, lots of interesting stuff.
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