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Monday, September 9, 2013

Reading List and Keeping Current

Somebody recently asked me how I keep up-to-date with the changes in technology. The short answer is reading. The long answer is I read a lot of different materials. Most of my technical reading is online technical articles. Yes, I know that I am a dork, but I can't help myself, I love this stuff. Most of this reading is random, based on comments from the day's meetings, emails that go to the reading list, links from blogs or articles I am reading, etc. I have found that I can't store the information for too long, so it is best for me to be a bit reactive to where and what I will be discussing.

Like most tech geeks I consume reading materials from many devices. Right now I have both the Kindle and Nook apps loaded on my phone, laptop, Surface Pro, and Surface RT (this has been confiscated by my wife), and I have a Kindle, my wife has a Nook. I use all of these regularly depending on where I am. So onto the lists.

I am currently reading the following books:

4 Hour Body
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play
The New Solution Selling
Lean Six Sigma for Dummies
A Cancer Therapy, Results of Fifty Cases
Hamlet
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

I recently finished reading:

Pumpkin Plan Your Business
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
Being an Effective Executive
Lean, Agile and Six Sigma for IT Management
4 Hour Workweek
Holiness
The Complete Husband

Then of course, there are the books I am always reading:

Bible
The Encyclopedia of Golf

What are you reading? How do you stay up-to-date?