1/ My top 10 favorite non-fiction books this year, and what they taught me
2/ The Startup Way by @ericries: completed the picture of what it looks like to work lean even in large enterprise & government settings. Also provided a model for what it looks like to build a movement around new ways of working
3/ Developer Hegemony by @daedtech: confirmed many trends in the workplace I'd suspected, but didn't have org experience to confirm. Gave me cover for promoting content production & freelancing more aggressively
4/ Inner Game of Work by @the_innergame: gave me so many deep principles/techniques for intuitive, intrinsic learning & performance. Gave me confidence to start a coach training program for Forte Labs
5/ To Sell Is Human by @DanielPink: confirmed my belief that sales skills will be pivotal skill in a digital world, and gave me ammunition to argue that everyone needs to learn them
6/ Principles of Product Dev't Flow by @DReinertsen: first person that could tell me WHY theory of constraints was correct but insufficient. Upgraded my understanding of flow principles to tech/software/knowledge economy
7/ Being Mortal by @Atul_Gawande: first thing I've read on death/mortality/aging. Very sobering look at the reality of aging that gave me a lot of perspective, realigned priorities
8/ A Beautiful Constraint by @eatbigfish: gave me a solid footing for why and how constraints can serve as leverage points in innovation, creativity, performance
9/ Stealing Fire by @steven_kotler & Jamie Wheal: helped put in perspective all the numerous transformational experiences people are seeking these days, & how they help us unlearn unproductive patterns by shifting our perspective
10/ Man Enough by Frank Pittman: pulled back the curtain on what it means to be a man today, how media & culture & other men shape how we find meaning, validate ourselves as men, and seek companionship & community
11/ Overall learning: I'm noticing many of these books confirmed something I'd already suspected or senses, but couldn't give words/examples to. They were like intellectual catapults, sending me much faster and farther in that direction than I would have gone otherwise
12/ THAT in turn confirms my belief that we need better ways of capturing, composting, enriching, and sharing well-structured packets of knowledge, to allow others to use them as building blocks in their own work
13/ My goal in 2018 is to find ways of doing that on a greater scale, so we don't all have to read the same books and glean the same insights. Let's bend that curve of collective learning a little higher this year
14/ Whoops, forgot one: Supersizing the Mind by @fluffycyborg: comprehensive and well-researched survey of the research on extended cognition. Helped make it more of a hard science than a hand-wavy singularity thing for me
