The Books I Read in 2012 ? Technology, Innovation, Education

Inspired by Tony Haile I have decided to write a yearly post in which I list the books that I have read for the year. This year I managed to read 57 books (still 18 books short on my seemingly unattainable goal of reading 75 books a year. Please note that the categories are quite arbitrary, but mean something for me. Having a Goodreads account really helped me with this exercise.

Some people ask me how I manage to read this much. I?ll give away my secret recipe: don?t have children, do not watch any TV and make sure you commute by train (45+ minutes in each direction) every day. That is all there is to it.

Innovation

Doorley?s book showed me how simple changes in the physical space can change people?s behavior and Dyer showed how being innovative is just a set of behaviour. I will put those two together in the next year. Checklist have stopped me forgetting things after reading Gawande?s book.

• Make Space: How To Set The Stage For Creative Collaboration ? Scott Doorley (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Innovator?s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators ? Jeff Dyer (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Sustainism Is The New Modernism ? Michiel Schwarz (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think ? Peter H. Diamandis (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right ? Atul Gawande (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley ? Victor W. Hwang (Goodreads/Amazon)

Philosophy

French has showed me that corporations are the best positioned lifeforms to show sustained moral behaviour. Illich was truly enlightening, I expect to read more of him in 2013 (Deschooling Society!). I will continue to explore McLuhan?s thinking with a reading group on Understanding Media. Sandel?s book on the moral limits of market is chockfull of incredible examples of things that can be gotten with money nowadays (e.g. prison cell upgrades). The three weirdest books I?ve read this year are also in this category: Stone, Burrell and Goertzel, all thanks to Daniel Erasmus. The book which made me think the most per page must have been Eagleman?s.

• Corporate Ethics ? Peter A. French (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Tools For Conviviality ? Ivan Illich (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Justice: What?s the Right Thing to Do? ? Michael J. Sandel (Goodreads/Amazon)
• What Money Can?t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets ? Michael J. Sandel (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Medium Is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects ? Marshall McLuhan (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age ? Sandy Stone (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory ? Gibson Burrell (Goodreads/Amazon)
• A Cosmist Manifesto ? Ben Goertzel (Goodreads/Amazon)
• In Praise Of Love ? Alain Badiou (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives ? David Eagleman (Goodreads/Amazon)
• You Kant Make It Up!: Strange Ideas from History?s Great Philosophers ? Gary Hayden (Goodreads/Amazon)

Technology

The anthology edited by Zerzan was probably my favourite book of the year and I was amazed to see how relevant the Cluetrain Manifesto is, 12 years after it has been written.

• Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology ? John Zerzan (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual ? Rick Levine (Goodreads/Amazon)
• WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency ? Micah Sifry (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ? Scott Rosenberg (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything ? C. Gordon Bell (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom ? Rebecca MacKinnon (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other ? Sherry Turkle (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age ? Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger (Goodreads/Amazon)

Learning

Postman?s book was full of provocative thinking. It made me wonder why we don?t seem to have this kind of insight into education nowadays (and are being put up with Ken Robinson).

• Teaching As a Subversive Activity ? Neil Postman (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning ? Sugata Mitra (Goodreads/Amazon)

Business/Management

I will use Osterwalder?s canvas in an upcoming workshop on business models for learning. Rodgers defies management orthodoxy by showing how we need (mostly informal) conversation to do sensemaking in this complex world.

• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers ? Alexander Osterwalder (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public ? Lynn Stout (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Informal Coalitions: Mastering the Hidden Dynamics of Organizational Change ? Chris Rodgers (Goodreads/Amazon)

Lifehacking/Self-Improvement

Berkun?s book on speaking is probably the most useful on the topic that I?ve come across. Zinsser is a well deserved classic. The Pomodoro technique has increased my productivity tremendously and has given me an idea of being in control of the work that I do.

• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction ? William Knowlton Zinsser (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated: Can You Focus ? Really Focus ? for 25 Minutes? ? Staffan Noteberg (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Pomodoro Technique ? Francesco Cirillo (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Verslaafd aan liefde ? Jan Geurtz (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Confessions of a Public Speaker ? Scott Berkun (Goodreads/Amazon)

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Together with four other nerds I started a book club where we will read technology related books. Holiday?s book was irritating as hell but did lead to a great discusion. Expect ten books or so in this category next year.

• Trust Me, I?m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator ? Ryan Holiday (Goodreads/Amazon)

Fiction

I didn?t read a lot of fiction this year. Thompson was long overdue (and didn?t disappoint). Stephenson was a bit disappointing (although also mindblowing at times). I thought Scott Card was morally despicable.

Other

Some great books don?t fit in the above categories. DeKoven wrote down how I intuitively taught physical education a few years back. I had a wonderful few days with MacGregor. The picture in MacArthur?s book are the opposite of Doorley?s book in the innovation category. Laties made me want to quit my job and start a book store.

• The Well-Played Game: A Playful Path to Wholeness ? Bernie DeKoven (Goodreads/Amazon)
• A History of the World in 100 Objects ? Neil MacGregor (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Soccer War ? Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Richard Ross: Architecture of Authority ? John F. MacArthur (Goodreads/Amazon)
• A General Theory of Love ? Thomas Lewis (Goodreads/Amazon)
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry ? Jon Ronson (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want To Fight For From Free Speech To Buying Local To Building Communities ? Andrew Laties (Goodreads/Amazon)
• A Life with Books ? Julian Barnes (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Bezeten: Ton Boot, de winnaar & het laatste seizoen ? Igor Wijnker (Goodreads/Amazon)
• the Science of Love and Betrayal ? Robin Dunbar (Goodreads/Amazon)
• How to Be Black ? Baratunde R. Thurston (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Arcosanti: An Urban Laboratory? ? Paolo Soleri (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Radical Evolution Radical Evolution Radical Evolution ? Joel Garreau (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media ? Mizuko Ito (Goodreads/Amazon)
• Don?t Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs: (She Thinks I?m A Piano Player In A Whorehouse) ? Paul Carter (Goodreads/Amazon)

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SeatGuru Now Offers Flight Searches, Tells You If You'll Love a Flight or Not

SeatGuru has long been a great resource for pinpointing the best seats on an airplane. The site has recently introduced a flight search tool, so you can plan your trip and take a look a the plane seat maps all in one place.

The new flight search, powered by TripAdvisor (which owns SeatGuru), offers the basics we've come to expect in any travel planning tool: sorting by price, finding packages, searching only nonstop, and looking for flexible dates.

A few interesting features make SeatGuru's search stand out. First, you can include baggage fees in the totals, so you can really compare how much those flights will cost. If you absolutely need power or Wi-Fi or other amenities during the flight, you can also select those options.

The search seems to be designed to give you the best view of both price and experience: You can require a minimum airline rating (from TripAdvisor's giant user community) and sort results by a unique "Guru Factor" that tells you if you'll love a flight, like it, or simply live with it. In this way, it's similar to previously mentioned Routehappy, except SeatGuru offers more detail and prices.

In short, it's now a lot easier to get not just the best flight but the best seat on that flight.

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Become A Better Person With These Tips - Empower Network

If the idea of self improvement is becoming a growing concern, then you are on the right track. Keep a positive mindset and remember that the more you know, the better chances you have at self improvement, so look through this article and see what tips apply to you and your personal development goals.

TIP! Many people have a personal development goal that is too vague, and therefore difficult to measure. Try to set a goal that is specific.

You should try to find and read books that tell you about self improvement. Personal development books that are well written, insightful and instructive can provide you with the information you need to significantly enhance your outlook and your life. Before you pick a book, read the reviews to make sure that it is worthwhile because some personal development books are better than others.

It?s a fact that you can?t please everyone, so you should try to make yourself happy first. You should not be selfish and only do what you want with no regards to others, though you do need to take full responsibility for your happiness. If you make sure that what you do is true to yourself and your ethics, you will be much happier with your self improvement path.

Do what you can to remove unnecessary stress from your life. Take time to process events before reacting to avoid creating unnecessary tension in your life. Always remember that there will always be bumps in the road, and that you simply need to concentrate on things that will help you achieve your objectives instead of allowing you to wallow in feelings of defeat.

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Instead of bragging about how many things you?ve earned in your life, try to ask other people about what they?ve earned in their life and what they?re proud of. This will provide you valuable insight into the others around you, and enable you to see how much others contribute each and every day.

Good leaders possess strength and power, but are also compassionate. You need to understand and empathize with followers in order to be a good leader, and when you do, you will temper rebukes with compassion. A leader is virtuous and honest, and practices what he preaches. He holds himself up as an example for others to follow.

If you would like to move forward in personal development, you should be humble. The more humble you are, realizing that there is room for growth, the more willing you are to gain knowledge. Once you adopt this mindset, you will be more open-minded and receptive to new knowledge, which will lead to self-improvement.

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ThinkPad T431s and X230s leak on Lenovo's site, mainly reveal design changes

Lenovo might not be ready to officially reveal the full 2013 ThinkPad range, but it's succeeded in sparking some early interest in the unannounced T431s and X230s by putting their manuals on its Chinese webpage. The documents don't tell us anything about what hardware will be found inside either machine, but as Laptop Reviews note, included diagrams do hint at what they might look like. Akin to the unreleased ThinkPad Helix and Edge notebooks, the traditional dedicated TrackPoint buttons below the keyboard have been done away with, in favor of integrating them into a larger trackpad. Something we also saw on the Helix that'll be carried through to the T431s and X230s is a slight alteration to the function keys -- they'll be the secondary use of hotkeys for brightness, volume and such, rather than the other way around.

If the diagrams are accurate, another difference from the T430 and X230 2012 models will be the hinges, which'll sink part of the top panel behind the body, much like the X1 Carbon and Helix / Edge ThinkPads due later this year. Screen sizes, however, will remain unchanged: the X230s will have a 12.5-inch panel (1,366 x 768 res) and the T431s a 14-incher (1,600 x 900). While we're missing key hardware specs at the moment, at least potential buyers can start pondering whether they'll be down for the design revisions or not. We've linked the PDF manuals below, but if you're looking for more than illustrations, you'll either need to know Chinese or be prepared to get busy with a translator.

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Source: Lenovo T431s manual (PDF), Lenovo X230s manual (PDF), Laptop Reviews

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/lenovo-thinkpad-t431s-x230s-leak/

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RIM notes 'remarkable' number of app submissions, extends $10,000 incentive deadline

After unveiling its new BlackBerry World app hub (music and video still incoming), its dev blog has now announced that RIM will be extending its Built for BlackBerry scheme. Intended to draw in even more native apps for its new mobile platform, the final cut-off date has now been moved from January 21st to February 18th. Talking to German paper, Die Welt, CEO Thorsten Heins recently backed up claims that BlackBerry's new OS would launch with 70,000 apps, although we all know that quality trumps quantity -- something that RIM aims to address. If devs submit an app that makes over $1,000 but less than $10,000, the Waterloo phonemaker will fork out the difference -- app authors can also submit their programs for approval without charge. If you're hungry for some app-based paychecks, check on the detailed criteria at our second source link.

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Source: BlackBerry Dev Blog, Built for BlackBerry criteria

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/22/rim-extends-built-for-blackberry-scheme/

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Arizona Commercial Real Estate & Business News by Nick Miner ...

Make sure you sign up for the CCIM/IREM 2013 Economic Forecast.? It is this week (Thursday, January 24^th, 2013) at the Tempe Center for the Arts.? There is a great line up of speakers.? For more info and to sign up, click here?

Here are the news articles you might find interesting today for commercial real estate and business:

2012 Retail Property Recap by Nick Miner, CCIM? ??2012 ended up with more than 100 properties trading hands.? That is down a little from 2011.? Prices are still below peak prices from 2008 ($240/SF) to just under $96/SF in 2012.? That is still about a 60% price adjustment from peak.? View article?

Phoenix Premium Outlets sets opening date? The Phoenix area soon will be home to yet another outlet mall.? Phoenix Premium Outlets will open April 4, off Interstate 10 adjacent to the Wild Horse Pass Hotel & Casino in Chandler.? Roseland, N.J.-based Premium Outlets is a brand of Indianapolis-based?Simon Property Group Inc.?It operates 72 malls around the globe, including 62 in the United States.? View article?

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Primestor Looks to Expand in Phoenix? After buying and developing in California for the past 20 years,?Primestor Development Inc. (the administrative/development arm of?Primestor Properties) is starting to push east. Specifically, on the local front, the Los Angeles-based company, which specializes in urban and Hispanic markets, recently acquired the 99,678-square-foot El Monte Plaza from?Michael A. Pollack Real Estate Investments?for just under $10 million.? View article?

Fresh & Easy?s future in Arizona still iffy? The future of the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets in Arizona is still uncertain as its United Kingdom-based owner reviews options for the grocery chain that has produced disappointing returns.? In December, parent company Tesco announced that it planned to do a ?strategic review? of Fresh & Easy. The review could end with Tesco leaving the U.S. market, either by selling the chain or just closing up shop.? View article?

Cigna opens downtown Phoenix urgent care center? Cigna Medical Group has opened a 95,000-square-foot clinic and urgent care center in downtown Phoenix.? CMG invested $15 million into the facility at 3003 N. Third St., which runs on solar power and has a system in place to limit water and energy usage, making it a candidate for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification.? View article?

CoStar Sounds Early Warning On Multifamily Development? The real estate analysts?at the CoStar Group worry that the growth in multifamily development may be too much of a good thing. ?Apartment construction has been on a tear in certain markets,? CoStar says. ?With the inventory growing at more than four or five times the national rate, vacancies will most likely increase.?? View article?

Arizona near top for construction job gains in 2012? Arizona posted the fourth-largest leap in construction employment in the nation last year, according to a new report by the Associated General Contractors?of America.? The Grand Canyon State reported a total workforce of 119,800 in December last year versus 112,800 in December 2011, said the report, which is based on the latest figures from the?U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.? View article?

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Developer is asking Florence for water rights? A housing developer is asking the town of Florence to relinquish its right to provide water and sewer service in the southern, unserved part of the community and give that right to him.? George Johnson says he would then be able to develop Florence Ranch. That?s a planned community of 6,000 homes, a dude ranch and destination boutique spa on more than 1,100 acres.? View article?

Source: http://www.nickminer.com/2013/01/commercial-real-estate-business-news-january-21-2013/

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Putin orders Russian computers to be protected after spy attacks

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian authorities to protect state computers from hacking attacks, the Kremlin said on Monday, after an Internet security firm said a spy network had infiltrated government and embassy computers across the former Soviet bloc.

Dubbed Red October, the network used phishing attacks - or unsolicited emails to intended targets - to infect the computers of embassies and other state institutions with a program designed to harvest intelligence and send it back to a server.

Putin signed a decree on January 15 empowering the Federal Security Service (FSB) to "create a state system for the detection, prevention and liquidation of the effects of computer attacks on the information resources of the Russian Federation".

State computer and telecommunications networks protected by the cyber security system should include those inside Russia and at its embassies and consulates abroad, according to the decree, which was published on a Kremlin website on Monday.

The Russian Internet security firm Kaspersky Labs said last week that the computer espionage network, discovered last October, had been seeking intelligence from Eastern European and ex-Soviet states including Russia since 2007. (http://r.reuters.com/mag45t )

Many of the systems infected belonged to diplomatic missions, Vitaly Kamluk, an expert in computer viruses at Kaspersky Labs, said last week. He declined to name specific countries.

Kamluk said last week that the network was still active, and that law enforcement agencies in several European countries were investigating it.

Kaspersky Labs said the infiltrators had created more than 60 domain names, mostly in Russia and Germany, that worked as proxies to hide the location of their real server.

The FSB declined immediate comment last week when asked whether Russia had taken action to bring any suspected members of the espionage network to justice, or acted to improve Internet security in light of the discovery.

The FSB - the main successor agency of the Soviet KGB - requested a written query, to which it has not yet responded. The Kremlin declined immediate comment on Monday when asked whether Putin's decree was linked to Red October.

(Reporting by Steve Gutterman and Thomas Grove; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/putin-orders-russian-computers-protected-spy-attacks-110741613.html

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