Feb 18
Dark Horse: Achieving Success through the Pursuit of Fulfillment —
How to achieve breakout success and deep fulfillment when you don't fit the traditional mold
Jan 04
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen —
Reading Notes on Preventative Interventions
In a Nutshell: Upstream is a book about prevention: how to not just mitigate the damage of problems after they happen (downstream) but address the underlying drivers of the problem such that the problem no longer occurs or is much less severe.
* This type of
Oct 11
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why —
In Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
[https://bookshop.org/books/deep-survival-who-lives-who-dies-and-why/9780393353716]
journalist Laurence Gonzales combines his own personal adventure history with
time spent with white water rafting experts, mountaineers, fighter jet pilots,
and wilderness survival guides to understand how people survive (or fail to
survive) in
Dec 11
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World —
Why it's ok to be a jack of all trades
Jul 28
The Fuzzy and the Techie —
I just finished Scott Hartley’s new book The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the
Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
[https://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Techie-Liberal-Digital-World/dp/0544944771/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1501252541&sr=8-1&keywords=fuzzy+and+techie&linkCode=ll1&
Sep 28
Remote: Office Not Required —
I just finished reading Remote: Office Not Required
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804137501/ref=as_li_ss_tl%3Fie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0804137501&linkCode=as2&tag=helpyour-20]
, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, partners at 37Signals
[http://37signals.com/
Sep 24
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future —
Today, we’re taking a look at the book The Inevitable: Understanding the 12
Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly. I really enjoyed
this book and if you work in technology or even have a passing interest in how
technology will shape our world in the
Aug 25
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging —
I recently finished reading Sebastian Junger’s excellent new book Tribes: on
Homecoming and Belonging
[https://jason-shen.ghost.io/%22http://amzn.to/2bqyqJL/%22]. It’s a slim volume
that addresses something really important: how hardship builds group cohesion
and solidarity.
In my keynote speech
[https://jason-shen.ghost.io/%22https:
Jan 11
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else —
I recently finished reading The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps
Everything Else
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160921075050/http://amzn.to/1VCM2PO] in business
by Patrick Lencioni. You’ve definitely heard Lencioni’s other books: Death by
Meeting [http://amzn.to/1La6Uxa] and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
[https:
Sep 24
Don’t Call it That: A Naming Workbook —
Today I’m sharing the insights I gleaned from a wonderful (and fairly short)
book Don’t Call it That: A Naming Workbook
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I1MRY80/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00I1MRY80&linkCode=as2&tag=
Sep 24
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age —
My reading notes The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1625275773/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1625275773&linkCode=as2&tag=helpyour-20&linkId=QLOVYSURY5HDAKLQ]
by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh.
Jul 28
The Little Book of Talent —
Five years ago, I stood in a bookstore for about an hour and read half of a
wonderful book called The Talent Code
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160622022700/http://amzn.to/1Sexp7L] by Daniel
Coyne. It had come out around the same time as a few other books in
Feb 28
The Success Equation, Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing. —
These reading notes began life as an “Ignite-style” 5 minute presentation with
slides automatically progressing every 15 seconds — which I gave on a Monday
morning presentation for Percolate. The words below are essentially what I said
during that talk.
The Success Equation, Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and
Nov 24
Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future —
In spring of 2012, Peter Thiel, cofounder of Paypal and Palantir and early
investor in Facebook, taught a course at Stanford in the Computer Science
department calledCS183: Startup
[http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup]. One of the students in the
class, a law student named Blake Masters, took meticulous notes that were
Sep 28
How Google Works —
Today, I’m sharing thoughts from the book How Google Works
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160525213329/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HUU13Y0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00HUU13Y0&linkCode=as2&tag=helpyour-20&linkId=PTHPN6KB6TVDYUMN]
, which I
Sep 24
How to Make Sense of Any Mess —
Reading Notes on Abby Covert's How to Make Sense of Any Mess
[https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-make-sense-of-any-mess-information-architecture-for-everybody/9781500615994]
The Book in a Nutshell: The human race is creating more information than ever
before, in the form of signs, articles, websites, apps, and much more — and the
world would
Sep 24
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead —
Disclaimer: as a man writing about gender inequality, I acknowledge my
privileged (and biased) viewpoint in this discussion. I’ve run this post by
several smart, awesome women and incorporated their feedback, but I know I still
run the risk of getting things wrong. Still, this topic is so important
Apr 04
The Year Without Pants —
One of the few people who can match Paul Graham [http://paulgraham.com/] as
writer is Scott Berkun [http://scottberkun.com/]. They have both succeeded as
technologists, Graham in Viaweb + YC, and Berkun in Microsoft and Automattic.
They both write thoughtful essays on a wide range of topics, like the
Feb 20
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web (+ Author Interview) —
While on my Peru trip earlier this year, I read a great book calledProduct
Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web
[https://web.archive.org/web/20180929085121/http://tinyurl.com/productdesignftw]
.
As one of two interaction designers who joinedEtsy
[https://web.archive.org/web/
Feb 19
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web —
No Silver Bullets: An Interview with Author Randy Hunt
While on my Peru trip earlier this year, I read a great book called Product
Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web
[https://www.amazon.com/Product-Design-Web-Principles-Designing/dp/0321929039].
As one of two interaction designers