(Work in progress)
Self Help
Tom Peters – The Little BIG Things – keep on your bedside table
Seth Godin – We Are All Weird – Lovely
Derek Sivers – Anything You Want – A fresh perspective on life
Jim Collins – Good To Great – Study on greatness of companies and how big ego’s undermine a company’s long term success. Humility!
Victor Hwang and Greg HoroWitt – The Rainforest – Study on best practices for creating innovative environments where ideas can flourish
Tom Peters – The Pursuit of Wow!
About computing and math
Gerrit Krol – Het Gemillimeterde Hoofd – dutch modern classic, extremely undervaluated
Douglas Coupland – jPod; and here – Generation X 2.0
Douglas Coupland – Kitten Clone; and here – beautiful book
Sydney Padua – The Thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage; and here – superb and different from anythng you’ve read before
About music
Greil Marcus – Stranded; post – milestone
Other
Tucker Max – Sloppy Seconds – sloppy book
Henneke Duistermaat – How To Write Seductive Web Copy – concise, helpful
Tim Kreider – We Learn Nothing; and here – Surprising, confusing, nothing liek you’ve read before