What’s in Your BookStack?
Quick—what’s in your ‘BookStack’?
If you’re like me, you may have several books you’re reading at once. Or maybe not reading, but referencing and scanning. Either way, these are the books piled up on your desk or beside your bed or [wherever else you stack books]. These are the 5 or 6 books that you are ‘in the middle of’.
So, what’s in your BookStack?
Credit goes to my colleague and coworker Chuck Mallott for phrasing it this way. He has a side project intended to help people share precisely this: what books (plural) are you currently reading? While I think Shelfari beat him to the punch for a lot of his ideas, I think he has an interesting angle with the ‘bookstacks’ concept. So, until his app is built, here’s my current book stack:
(Top to bottom: Peter and the Starcatchers, Changing the Conversation in Organizations, The Creative Priority, The Intelligence Advantage, Serious Play, The Divine Conspiracy, Geometry and Meaning, The Owner’s Manual for The Brain)
And for grins sake, here’s my book stack from 6 months ago: (the photo was for a presentation)
(Top to bottom: The Laws of Simplicity, The Paradox of Choice, Finite and Infinite Games, Geometry and Meaning, The Story Factor, Design Management, Observing the User Experience)
At the risk of starting a meme, I’m going to ask a few of my friends (and more friends) to share what’s in their stack…
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On Nov 4, 08:55 PM kraemer said
Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands – by Paul David Tripp & The Peacemaker by Ken Sande.
On Nov 5, 05:57 AM Travis Isaacs said
My Stack
On Nov 5, 11:07 AM John Schertzer said
Interesting. I’m a poet myself (google me and you’ll see), as well as a business analyst/PM, and have some similar interests.
Something you might be interested in:
http://www.altfeld.com/mastery/products/ke-nlp.html
Jonathan was an knowledge engineer, but is now does communication seminars.
Jonathan’s KE is an “explicit” modeling methodology, but it may be useful for you to investigate “implicit” modeling strategies as well, i.e. John Grinder.
btw my stack is too stacked to list on short notice, but I have Ron Silliman’s The Age of Huts in my bag.
be well,
JS
On Nov 8, 02:20 PM brandon said
hoping that “simplicity” was removed from the stack b/c you finished it and were impacted positively by it (as i was) and not that it fell off the stack and is sitting next to your end-table with lint on it.
bc
On Nov 9, 04:50 AM Jakub Pawlowicz said
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Homepage Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir, Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn and Getting Real by 37 Signals (as it is on my desk all the time)
On Dec 2, 07:56 PM Adam Keys said
Just for kicks and exhibitionism, I’m going to chip in with my whole bookshelf:
http://flickr.com/photos/therealadam/sets/72157603361768249/
What I’ve read recently: The Best Software Writing Vol. 1, The System of the World, The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Peopleware, How To Win Friends and Influence People, The No Asshole Rule, Introducing Linguistics
On Dec 3, 09:16 AM Lokesh said
Idea meme’d. My book stack:
http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/2007/11/08/book-stack-meme/
On Dec 14, 06:56 PM Todd W. said
Here’s my stack: http://designinginnovations.tumblr.com/post/21612744
Some read, some to-read, some for reference.