reading

Another great book to add to the collection.  This short and concise book is a great quick Saturday morning read, compiling 11 questions into what it calls the "endleofon" questions.

These 11 questions are used as a set of steps when working on a new idea or creation, to develop that idea up to it's best possible potential.  In other words, it gives you guidelines and strategies on how to creatively think about an idea, and is built to work for anyone in any discipline.

Check it out.

Next on my list? "Problem Solving 101" and photograpy book on my new hobby.

Just got finished reading this great book called "Making Ideas Happen". Scott Belsky does a great job of taking techniques used by other people/companies, summarizing them into a good set of everyday practicies that can lead you to making your own great ideas come to life.

I've already noticed a boost in productivity, just by simply wording the tasks in my daily To Do list with action verbs, and simply thinking of them as "actions" instead of tasks.  I wouldn't be writing in my blog right now if it wasn't for my bi-weekly "Write a blog" task I just started.

Definitely a great read for anyone that has a mind numbing amount of ideas floating around in their head, or even if you have one idea that you've been sitting on for a while and are stuck on where to begin.  Check it out.

Next on my list, "The Genius Machine".

Welcome 2010!!! It's a new year, a new decade, a new realm to play with new creations. Where have I been the first 3 months of it?  Playing playing playing, here are a few things I've been working on.

 Amazon realeased the Kindle 2 today.  Thinner, faster, more space, blah blah blah as with other product upgrades.  Even though its cool, and even though you get free wireless to download books whenever/wherever*, I'm still torn about owning one.  Why?  Because I still like the physical touch of books.  And probably just like I don't need the 80 gigs of mp3 I carry around on my iPod, I'm quite sure I don't need 1500 books.