You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.

--Charles “Tremendous” Jones

Things I learned from the Steve Jobs biography:

• Focus on one task at a time.
• Work on the number one priority and don't finish until the goal has been accomplished.
• Give everything you have plus a little ( Read more... )

I meant to tell the world that I read Neutrino last month.

Everybody always ask me
How I got to play so fine
And friends, I'm gonna tell ya
It really did take some time
…
While the other guys were out playin' with the football
I was home bangin' on the keys

My Old Man and I don't see eye to eye on much. We never did spend a lot of time together growing up (at least, not that I recall right off) but ( Read more... )

Of Reading
I don't know where it has come from, but I've been bitten by the reading bug. This month alone, I've read The Game, the majority of Sperm Wars, re-read Stephen King's On Writing, Lay Down with Dogs and about half of my old ethics textbook A Gift of Fire.

This does not count my reading (currently 170 pages) of Making of America. There ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. This morning during the power outage at work, I finished an out-of-print book about the Hugh Otis Bynum murder conspiracy trial entitled Lay Down with Dogs.

Went on a Amazon bargain-bin binge recently, picking up a copy of David Horowitz's The Art of ( Read more... )

I've currently read something in this list

• Going Rogue
• Wikinomics
• Conquering the Sky
• The Diary of a Young Girl aka The Diary of Anne Frank
•  The Reagan Diaries