Reading list

Written on 15 April 2014, 10:06pm

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Floralia Brussels
The updated reading list from 28 November 2013:
✔ 1. Steve Krug – Don’t make me think —read, as well as the 3rd, revisited edition
⇓ 2. Dean Buonomano – Brain Bugs —saved for later
✖ 3. Andy Hunt – Pragmatic thinking and learning —read the first chapter, did not catch me. Maybe some other time
⇓ 4. Paco Underhill – Why We Buy —saved for later
⇓ 5. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice (Why more is less) —saved for later
✔ 6. Dale Carnegie – How to win friends and influence people —read, as well as a condensed version of it
✔ 7. Smashing book #4 —currently reading
✔ 8. George Orwell – 1984 —read, but did not found the positive state of mind to finish it
✔ 9. Dean Beaumont – The Expectant Dad’s handbook —read, this and two more 🙂

In the mean time I also read The speed reading book, Ronnie and rediscovered the pleasure of reading funny SF novels.

Next in my reading list:
1. Smashing book #4 – finish it
2. Dean Buonomano – Brain Bugs
3. Irwin Schiff and Peter Schiff – How an economy grows and why it crashes
4. Bill Shankly – My Story
5. Steve Peters – The chimp paradox
6. Paco Underhill – Why We Buy
7. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice (Why more is less)
8. Steve Souders – Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers
9. Whatever I find interesting from the Smashing library 🙂

Ronnie

Written on 19 February 2014, 11:07pm

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Ronnie O’Sullivan is one of my favorite sportsmen. But it’s only recently – after he won the World Masters – that I found 2 interesting things about him:
1. that he wrote an autobiography book
2. that running is a very important part of his life
ronnie running 300
Here are some interesting quotes from the first two chapters of his autobiography book:
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List of books for the holidays

Written on 28 November 2013, 04:33pm

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1. Steve Krug – Don’t make me think
2. Dean Buonomano – Brain Bugs
3. Andy Hunt – Pragmatic thinking and learning
4. Paco Underhill – Why We Buy
5. Barry Schwartz – The Paradox of Choice (Why more is less)
6. Dale Carnegie – How to win friends and influence people
7. Smashing book #4
8. George Orwell – 1984
9. Dean Beaumont – The Expectant Dad’s handbook

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