Coder. Speaker. Writer.

I’m an avid reader, and my tastes are pretty eclectic.  I read fiction while vacationing and traveling, non-fiction during breakfast, and technical books in the evenings and on quiet weekends – I don’t watch much tv nor do I have cable. And if you want to be an enabler or see what’s next on my list check out my Amazon wishlist

Here are my latest reads (within the last 3 years):

Current Reading List:

• Design for Hackers – David Kadavy
• The Chocolate Connoisseur – Chloe Doutre-Roussel
• The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
• The Mesh – Lisa Gansky
• Wanderlust – Elisabeth Eaves
• Low Stress Food – Joon Yung

Queued Up:

• Smart & Gets Things Done – Joel Spolsky
• Built to Last – Jim Collins
• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
• Behind the Cloud – Mark Benioff
• Creative Capital – Spencer E. Ante
• Word of Mouth Marketing – Andy Sernovitz

Fiction/Fun:

• Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child – Noel Fitch
• Pilgrims – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Dimanche and Other Stores – Irene Nemirovsky
• Summer at Tiffany – Marjorie Hart

• Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
• My Life in France – Julia Child
• Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Michal Chabon
• Stern Men – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
• Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
• New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
• Julie & Julia – Julie Powell
• The Last Voyage of Columbus – Martin Dugard
• Founding Mothers – Cokie Roberts
• Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
• Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior – Ori & Rom Brafman
• Simply Irresistable – Ellen T. White

Business/Entrepreneurship/Career:

• Good Boss, Bad Boss – Robert I. Sutton
• Street Smarts – Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham

• Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
• Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
• Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
• Mastering the VC Game – Jeffrey Bussgang

• The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company – Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel
• Great Demo! – Peter E. Cohen
• Brand Sense – Martin Lindstrom
• The Secret – Ken Blanchard & Mike Miller
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
• Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
• Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
• Basic Black – Cathie Black
• Secrets of Six Figure Women – Barbara Stanny
• Getting to Yes – Roger Fisher & William Ury
• Getting Things Done – David Allen

Programming/Design:

• Agile Development with Rails – Samy Ruby & Dave Thomas
• Mental Models – Indi Young
• Building Social Web Applications
• Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
• Rockstar Programmers – Ed Burns
• Test Driven Development – Thomas Hammell & Tom Snyder
• The Laws of Simplicity – John Maeda
• Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman

Some of the blogs I read:

• Both Sides of the Table
• Caterina.net
• Steve Blank
• Lessons Learned