Books
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug
- Nicely Said by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert: Entire text available online.
- Every Page is Page One by Mark Baker
- Strategic Writing for UX by Torrey Podmajersky
- Storytelling in Design by Anna Dahlström
- Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag
- Writing Is Designing by Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle
- Microcopy by Kinneret Yifrah
Finished reading: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny 📚
Finished reading: Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Finished reading: How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny 📚
Finished reading: Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Finished reading: Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Finished reading: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny 📚
The only issue I have with the lovely, well-plotted, thoughtful Inspector Gamache books is how hungry I get. They’re always eating and drinking delicious things.
Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚
“Truly creative individuals are those who succeed, against all pressures of instinct and wordly wisdom, in visualizing a way of life that will make the lot of others freer and happier. …The idea of free will is a self-fulfilling prophecy; those who abide by it are liberated from the absolute determinism of external forces.”
👉 Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚
While striving to change the course of history we cannot wish away the constraints that the past has burdened us with; to do so would lead only to frustration and disillusion. Knowledge of these forces that determine consciousness and action, however, can make it possible for us to become liberated from them: to become free to decide what to think, what to feel, and how to act.
Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚
It’s scary to confront the truth that almost everything worth doing… depends on cooperating with others, and therefore on exposing yourself to the emotional uncertainties of relationship. …The more individual sovereignty you achieve over your time, the lonelier you get.
Some work-related books I’m bookmarking to check out this year:
Happy to get other recommendations if you have them.
…to live in absolute freedom is neither possible nor desirable. Without rules based on past experience it is easy to make costly mistakes; without a sense of ultimate purpose it is difficult to sustain courage when the unavoidable tragedies of life strike.
Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚
An easy fantasy read with medieval-ish spycraft and political intrigue. Plot was strained and it dragged a bit; cut by 100 pages and it would be a better book. I liked the characters but probably won’t read the rest in this series.
Finished reading: Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling 📚
“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power.”
Currently reading: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch 📚