Recommended Reading

A popular feature on blogs is to curate a list of links so that new users can familiarize themselves with the site. This is typically a list culled together by the writer of the site, not only does it help new readers, but it helps the site generate more internal traffic. It’s usually not done as a ploy for more clicks — most writers do it to showcase their best work.

I have never had one because it is incredibly hard to pick out things you think others will enjoy. I have been thinking about this a lot lately and decided that I should make a “Recommended Reading List” — with a twist. Below you will find a long list of links — some to my writing, some to excellent works on other people’s sites (gasp). I purposefully didn’t put who wrote what, some you can tell by the title, some you can’t — they are all worth your time.

I love every one of these posts and I hope you do too.

• “Blue da ba dee da ba di”
• An Open Letter to the Apple News Community on Steve Jobs’ Health, Professional Boundaries and Not Being Douchebags
• Fragility of Free
• Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets
• Antilunchism
• The Ballmer Days Are Over
• Cranking
• Advice to a Graphic Design Student
• Great Expectations
• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
• Flying the SR-71 Blackbird
• Twi$$er
• al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness
• The Importance of Abandoning Crap
• A Successful Failure
• Hurry
• Lucky 13: A MacBook Air Review
• A Nerd in a Cave
• Maintaining Motivation
• How the iPad Wants to be Used
• Faceboooo
• Avoiding the blogger trap
• How to Disagree
• “Worth”
• Initiative
• Mike Rowe Senate Testimony