Earlier this year, I came across Michael Rubin‘s book Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolutionat my local St. Louis County Library branch. What an unbelievable find of a book. In some great stories, and lots of detail, Rubin tells the early history of what has become the LucasFilm empire, not to mention the birth [...]
Tagged Life, Movies, passionI revisited the following, originally posted in July ’07, after putting Douglas Hofstadter’s Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language back onto my currently-reading list. It is still relevant, so thought it worth sharing again. With any luck, I’ll have some new insights to share after I’ve read the book again. [...]
Tagged Books, learning, Life, WorkSeveral years ago I picked up Deng Ming Dao’s 365 Tao. As the title suggests, it contains 365 daily meditations, ranging from the banal to the profound. I’ve used several of the meditations as the basis for blog posts before (see here and here, for example), but my personal favorite is today’s meditation on Engagement. [...]
Tagged learning, meditation, taoBack in November ’07 I signed up for Shelfari, the self-described “premier social network for people who love books.” Up till that point I had been keeping a book list in my handy-dandy notebook (I’m still a bit low-tech in some areas). This was about the time I was jumping into the world of social [...]
Tagged Books, Social Media, Social NetworkingIn a recent post I asked if you, as an individual, have a coach. My question for today: Do you, as a leader of an organization, have a coach for your team(s)? If you don’t have a separate position for a coach, do you act as the coach for your team? Or do you just [...]
Tagged coach, Gladwell, learning, sports, teamLike many others, I gave myself a 50 book challenge for 2008. (Actually my personal challenge went from 1 Dec 07 to 30 Nov 08, but that’s a minor detail.) Unfortunately, I only got through 40 books in the past 12 months (though some were as long as several books); fortunately, most of those 40 [...]
Tagged Books, fiction, practice, Stephenson, theoryTony Karrer recently asked for recommendations of books for learning professionals (see #38 of his 100 Conversation Topics.) There are many good books in this category, but for the purposes of this conversation I have 4 recommendations. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael Gelb. Mastery: The [...]
Tagged 100 conversations, Aikido, Books, da Vinci, learningIn his book, Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi has a section entitled “Balance is BS”. The “balance” he is referring to is the work/life balance that so many people talk about. If you hadn’t read the rest of the book, or if you don’t know anything about Keith, you will likely be thinking, “This guy [...]
Tagged ArtOfLiving, Balance, Ferrazzi, networking
