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3 things I learned this year: my message for the New Year

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Here’s a new year message from me: 3 things I witnessed in 2011, and why they give me hope for the future.

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Our crowd-sourced Xmas reading list

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

 

Thanks to everyone who replied to my tweet on Monday! Happy reading (or watching in the case of the Nick Bilton book)

Most popular
Tie between Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, and The Official Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson

My picks
I live in the future and here’s how it works by Nick Bilton (Video about book)
Wiera Gran L’acusée, by Agata Tuszynska
Trois Femmes Puissantes
by Marie NDiaye
Tussen twee vuren by Malin Persson Giolito 

(I also read the Steve Jobs biography which really shows you different sides of the guy. He was a genius and a complex friend)

Your picks
Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, Clay Johnson
Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You,  Misha Glenny
Wired for innovation
, Erik Brynkolfsson and Adam Saunders
Deconstructing Digital Natives, Michael Thomas
Adapt: Why success always starts with failure, Tim Harford
Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson  (about how a trans-atlantic murder investigation in 1910 showed the world the importance of radio)
The Cluetrain manifesto  
How the World Was One, non-fiction history of telecommunications by Arthur C. Clarke

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