A few weeks ago I asked for photos of Mindfire out in the world. I promised to include their names in the 1.1 edition and I delivered. Here are the photos: And their names appear in the acknowledgements of the 1.1 edition: If you’re jealous, or think you can do better (these photos were tame [...]
Read More »To help celebrate the launch of Mindfire 1.1 (free for 48 hours), here’s a round up of the many behind the scenes posts I wrote. One goal for the book was to learn about self-publishing, and I love to share things I’ve learned. Why give a book away for free Why I decided to self-publish [...]
Read More »I’ve heard a handful of reports of issues with the Kindle edition of Making Things Happen. I talked to O’Reilly Media and they tracked down the issue. Apparently there was a pirated version of the book listed on Amazon that some people purchased. It has been taken down. The real, official version can be found [...]
Read More »Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds is a collection of my best and most provocative essays. It’s short, fast, fun and inspiring. Its been revised, cleaned up, and polished for your enjoyment. To celebrate and thank all of you readers, the book is available for FREE for 48 hours. All you have to do is go [...]
Read More »Linda at Cook for Good asked me about Godin’s recent post Communication is a path, not an event: The other day, I heard the CEO of a large corporation drone on for twenty minutes. He was pitching a large group of strangers, reading them a long, prepared speech that was largely irrelevant to their needs. They [...]
Read More »The revised 1.1 edition of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds is finally finished. More than 100 typos, fixes and little touches were added to make it the best version of the book ever. It’s currently on sale at amazon.com, but the official launch will be tomorrow at 9AM (Wed March, 20th). If you come [...]
Read More »I’ve known Phil Simon since college and he’s one of the only people I’ve known that long that’s taken on a similar writing ambition: he’s written five books, including his latest Too Big Too Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data. The term ‘big data’ is popular, but on the verge of becoming jargon and [...]
Read More »The other day I saw some high school students in a coffeeshop, and on the table was a book titled Why We Love Sociopaths. I laughed when I saw it, thinking it was an excellent book title. Then I looked it up on kindle and read the whole thing that night. At 100 pages it [...]
Read More »Next Wednesday the 1.1 edition of Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, a collection of my best essays, will be officially released. More than 100 corrections, typo-fixes and little fit and finish improvements were made. Amazon is already selling 1.1, but Wednesday 3/20 9am PST is the official launch and I’ll be giving away the e-book editions free [...]
Read More »A debate is rising on whether the old platitude No UI is the best UI is good or bad. I’ll tell you who is right: no one. Debates like these fall into the same stupid trap academics have fallen into for centuries: Platonic ideals are an illusion. They’re fun to play with, but they’re useless [...]
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