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=== [http://www.jjg.net/elements/ Elements of User Experience] ===
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== Web / Tech ==
[[Image:Elements cover.jpg|75px|right]]
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* The Viral Loop - Adam L. Penenberg
* Recommended to me by [[User:Vinh Nguyen|Vinh]]
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* Rework - 37 Signals folks
* Author: Jesse James Garrett
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* Marketing in the age of Google - Vanessa Fox
* Neat and concise way to view the design process, the book provides a framework in which you can organize your thoughts and be thinking about the right things at the right times. Oftentimes all kinds of ideas come up at all stages of site design and it's maddening; Garrett brings some order to that chaos.
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* Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuk
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* Inbound Marketing - Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah
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* What would Google do? - Jeff Jarvis
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* The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
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* [[HereComesEverybody.org|Here Comes Everybody]] - [[Shirky.com|Clay Shirky]]
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* SuperCrunchers - Ian Ayers
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* Designing for the social web - Joshua Porter
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* [http://www.jjg.net/elements/ Elements of User Experience] - Jesse James Garrett
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* [[Smartmobs.com|Smartmobs]] [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html book] by [[Rheingold.com|Howard Reingold]]
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* Groundswell, Charlene Li
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* The Search - [[BattelleMedia.com|John Battelle]]
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* [[Cluetrain.com|The Cluetrain Manifesto]]
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* [[SethGodin.com|Seth Godin]]
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** Permission Marketing
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** IdeaVirus
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** Purple Cow
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** Tribes
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* The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
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* Emergence - [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Stephen Johnson]]
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* Ruling the Root - Milton Mueller
  
== Here Comes Everybody ==
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== How the Mind Works ==
[[Image:HereComesEverybodyBookCover.png|75px|right]]
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* Mindsight - Dan Siegel
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* Linchpin - Seth Godin
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* Drive - Daniel Pink
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* The Three Laws of Performance - Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
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* Switch - Dan and Chip Heath
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* Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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* [[OnIntelligence.org|On Intelligence]], Jeff Hawkins (amazing book)
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* Mind Wide Open - [[StevenBerlinJohnson.com|Steve Johnson]]
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* Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
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* Emotional Intelligence - Dan Goleman
  
* Author: Clay Shirky
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== Operational Excellence ==
* Fun story in the first chapter
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* What got you here won't get you there - Marshall Goldsmith
* Great read on the the power of today's community tools and influencers of the future.  Lots of insights.
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* Who - Geoff Smart and Randy Street
* [http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/1594201536 Here Comes Everybody]
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* Who's got your back - Keith Ferrazzi
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* Getting Things Done - David Allen
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* Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - [[Gazelles.com|Verne Harnish]] (The methods we use at AboutUs)
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* [[JimCollins.com|Jim Collins]]
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** Built to Last
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** Good to Great - (a must read)
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** Great, by Choice
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* Inside Advantage - Robert Bloom
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* Leadership and Self Deception - The Arbinger Institute
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* [[TableGroup.com|Pat Lencioni]] (short fable style books)
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** Getting Naked (for service folks)
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** 5 Temptations of a CEO
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** Death by Meeting
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** 5 Dysfunctions of a team (Best of the group)
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* Little Bets - Peter Sims
  
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== Economics ==
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* [[FreakonomicsBook.com|Freakonomics]], Steven D. Levitt and [[StephenJDubner.com|Stephen J. Dubner]]
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* The World is Flat - [[ThomasLFriedman.com|Thomas Friedman]]
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* The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
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* Boomerang - Michael Lewis
  
==Emergence==
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== Politics ==
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* The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
  
* The book talks about emergent systems and the difference between individual and group behavior. He starts with an explanation of slime mold and then compares that with ant colonies, cities and the Internet.  I found it fascinating.
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== Investigative Reporting ==
* Author: Stephen Johnson
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* [[ThreeCupsOfTea.com|Three Cups of Tea]] - Greg Mortenson (Northern Pakistan)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Software/dp/0684868768/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3245772-5210336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178491273&sr=1-1 Emergence on Amazon]
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* Jon Krakauer books:
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** Into Thin Air (Mt. Everest)
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** Under the Banner of Heaven (Mormon Fundamentalism)
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** Into the Wild (Alaska)
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* The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
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* Liars Poker - Michael Lewis
  
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== Biographical ==
 
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609610627 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World] - Jack Weatherford
==Down and out in the Magic Kingdom ==
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226654292&sr=1-11 The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life], Alice Schroeder
[[Image:Down and out in the Magic Kingdom Book.jpg|right|100px]]
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* The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guavara
 
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* Lessons: An Autobiography - An Wang (Wang Laboratories)
* A cure for death has been found and as a result the only real currency that matters in this version of the future is personal reputation.  Adhocracy defined.
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* The Ultimate Entrepreneur - Ken Olsen (DEC)
* Author: Cory Doctorow
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* The Winner Within - Pat Riley (Lakers, Knicks)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Down-Magic-Kingdom-Cory-Doctorow/dp/076530953X/ref=sr_1_3/104-3245772-5210336?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178491906&sr=1-3 Down and out in the Magic Kingdom on Amazon]
 
  
== The Wisdom of Crowds ==
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== About Specific Businesses ==
[[Image:WisdomOfCrowdsBookCover.png|75px|right]]
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* Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove (Intel)
* How can 800 non experts come up with a better guess as to the weight of a fully dressed cow?  This phenomenon is explored and applied to Las Vegas odds, the stock market and more.
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* Maverick - Ricardo Semler (Semco)
* Author - James Surowiecki
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* Odyssey - John Scully (Apple)
* [http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706 Wisdom of Crowds on Amazon]
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* Faster Company - Patrick Kelly (Physician Sales & Service)
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* Business at the Speed of Thought - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
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* The Road Ahead - Bill Gates (Microsoft)
  
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== Happiness ==
* [http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html Smartmobs by Howard Reingold]
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* Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh (Zappos guy)
* On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins (amazing book)
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* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465028020/bookstorenow600-20 The Happiness Hypothesis] - Jonathan Haidt (super book)
* Groundswell, Charlene Li
 
* Mastering the Rockefeller Habits - Verne Harnish
 
* The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
 
* Death by Meeting - Pat Lencioni
 
* Faster Company
 
* Purple Cow - Seth Godin
 
* Business at the Speed of Thought - Bill Gates
 
* The Road Ahead - Bill Gates
 
* Ruling the Root - Milton Mueller
 
* The Search - John Battelle
 
* Mind Wide Open - Steve Johnson
 
* The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guavara
 
* The Cluetrain Manifesto
 
* Three Cups of Tea
 
* Tribes - Seth Godin
 
* Jon Krakauer books:
 
** Into Thin Air
 
** Under the Banner of Heaven
 
** Into the Wild
 
* The Winner Within - Pat Riley
 
* Maverick - Ricardo Semler
 
* Odyssey - John Scully
 
* The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
 
* ... lots more to come
 
  
== Biographies ==
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== Self Help ==
* Lessons: An Autobiography - An Wang
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* Unleashing the Soul of Money - Lynne Twist
* Ken Olsen -
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* The Power of Now - Eckhard Towle
  
 
== Fiction ==
 
== Fiction ==
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* The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
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* Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
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* First Kyu - Sung-Hwa Hong
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* The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
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* The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
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* The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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* A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Other-Rooms-Wonders/dp/0393068005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254176618&sr=1-1 In other rooms other wonders] - Daniyal Mueenuddin (Great perspective on Pakistan)
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* Down and out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
 
* Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
 
* Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
 
* Kite Runner
 
* Kite Runner
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* Fountainhead
 
* Fountainhead
 
* Dan Brown Books (ok I'll admit it)
 
* Dan Brown Books (ok I'll admit it)
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** The Lost Symbol
 
** DaVinci Code (Best in my opinion)
 
** DaVinci Code (Best in my opinion)
 
** Angels and Demons
 
** Angels and Demons
 
** Digital Fortress
 
** Digital Fortress
 
** Deception Point
 
** Deception Point
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* Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
  
== On My List ==
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== Science Fiction ==
* [http://www.amazon.com/Snowball-Warren-Buffett-Business-Life/dp/0553805096/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226654292&sr=1-11 The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life], Alice Schroeder (reading now)
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* Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
* Obed's picks:
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* Daemon - Daniel Suarez
** A god of small things, Arundhuti Roy
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* Freedom - Daniel Suarez
** Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
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* Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
** Dancing Girls of Lahore, ?
 
** The Sandman Comics, Neil Gaiman
 
** A Case of Exploding Mangoes
 
* Adad's picks:
 
** Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe
 
  
 
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