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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks solidified my interest in neuroscience
And The Three Pound Enigma solidified my fascination with medicine in general.
If you only read one, read Phantoms in the Brain. It's like the bible of science, providing the crumbs for future research into the deeply interesting and previously philosophical realms of the human brain and who we are.
Nearby shelf: The Design of Everyday Things, Maverick, Founders at work, A Brief History of Time, A Pattern Language, Peopleware, Made to stick, Web Standards Solutions, Designing Interactions, The Pragmatic Programmer, The Mythical Man-Month, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Other good reads: Blink, Tipping Point, Long Tail, Freakonomics
Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson's Autobiography
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs Inside Steve's Brain
The Seven Day Weekend- Book by Ricardo Semler of Semco on company organization and management, Semco essentially operates as a socialist enterprise with election of bosses, profit sharing, open information, flex-time, etc, but with the twist that Ricardo is the majority stock owner. Fascinating book and well-written to boot.
Founders at Work should go without saying :)
First person to say "The Long Tail" gets expelled.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Books I wish I had on my bookshelf: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Seth Godin, Oct. 21st) Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't (Malcolm Gladwell, Nov. 18th) Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition (Guy Kawasaki, Oct. 30th) If you're the kind of person who lines up at bookstores to get the newest non-fiction books the day they come out then it's g…
I just like books with post-colonic explanatory subtitles, but it looks like I'll be taken care of as well. Yes, I made that word up.
From the same author as "How to become extremely successful at writing self-help books"
This summer I've read/am reading/am planning to read: * The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Robert Caro) * Options Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques (Sheldon Natenberg) * Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Edwin Burrows & Mike Wallace) * Egil's Saga (anonymous) * Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) If you have any interest in the history of New York City at al…