Poke the Box is Seth Godin’s latest book/manifesto. This is different from his other books in that it runs only 70 pages and is published as part of a new venture with Amazon called The Domino Project. You may remember last year Seth Godin rocked the world by suggesting he was done with mainstream publishers. This is where he’s landed. Poke the Box is a short, ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Poke the Box
Book Notes: Alone Together
This week I muscled through Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together – Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books, 2011/Affiliate link). It explores our increasingly perverse relationship with technology and how it impacts us psychologically. This book falls into what I call the contratech genre, an evolving niche critical of technology's runaway ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Alone Together
Thinking in Synch
Yesterday morning I posted a brief review on Kevin Kelly’s new book, What Technology Wants. Greg Smith remarked that he’s half-way through it. In a Twitter exchange with Kent Bottles later in the day I shared that I just started Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together. Turns out he just finished it. Serendipity? Hardly. It’s synchronicity with people who share my ideas ... Continue Reading about Thinking in Synch
Deadly Choices – How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
A friend suggested she was tired of hearing about vaccines. Her comment and our subsequent conversation seemed to reflect an important shift in parent sentiment: the conversation about vaccines is beginning to get somewhere. Enter Deadly Choices. While much of this was born of the MSM’s newfound realization that the vaccine-autism connection was cooked, some of ... Continue Reading about Deadly Choices – How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
Where Good Ideas Come From
Did you ever wonder how innovation happens? I just finished Where Good Ideas Come From – The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Berlin Johnson which tackles this very question. Drawing from examples across multiple disciplines, Johnson builds the case that throughout history and nature there are recognizable patterns associated with innovation. By embracing ... Continue Reading about Where Good Ideas Come From
Content Rules Book Review
I just finished Content Rules by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman. As you might imagine, this book is all about content. How to make it remarkable and how to give it wings. It was good for me. It made me think critically about what I'm making and where it ships. This is the closest how-to book that I’ve seen for businesses and individuals figuring out how exactly ... Continue Reading about Content Rules Book Review