[A Collage Representing the Internet] the Internet (31k jpeg) (492k jpeg) is a collage i did as part of a study at the Harvard Business School (no gifs due to patent problems)

Reading

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When I was quite young, I found
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
and read it dozens of times.

That ended when, in my early teens, I found
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
which I read dozens of times into my twenties, and every few years since then.

Floor Sample by Julia Cameron - an artist's, often hard, journey - as well as her The Artist's Way books.

Marketing Without Advertising: Creative Strategies for Small Business Success by Salli Rasberry, Michael Phillips -the best thing on grass roots marketing, i've read.

Honest Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business by Salli Rasberry, Michael Phillips - full of great examples and fables about doing business in a healthy way. if you like it, hunt up the stuff from the Briar Patch Network (the old printed stuff is better then what's googable).

The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert M. Axelrod - basic information on how to get along with humans, and get them to cooperate! One of the most worthwhile books I've ever read.

All four of Edward Tufte's books on graphic design and presenting information on the printed page:

There are the most beautiful, most well made, and best printed books I have ever held in my hands. Tufte has also doen some awesome sculpture (see the bottom of that web page for the real links!).

My favorite book by Alan Watts is Tao: The Watercourse Way, Pantheon, 1977, ISBN 0-394-73311-8

I've enjoyed the writings of Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (aka D. T. Suzuki) one of Alan Watts' early influences.

Shunryu Suzuki, (co-)founder of the San Francisco Zen Center and author of (among others) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Weatherhill, 1970, ISBN 0-8348-0079-9.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind is the last book I've read on Zen meditation. During it, I realized that reading about meditation was much less important then meditating, so I started meditating.

The Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky.
Thoughts on how the human mind and heart works by one of the world's foremost experts on their exploration.

The Beautiful Machine by Maggie Letvin
the 180 Exercise Cards Plus a 64-page Planning Guide edition, is easier to use then either the paper back or hard cover

Stretch and Strengthen by Judy Alter

The Sweet Everlasting by Judson Mitcham
short wunderful novel about the south and a lower class white man intertwines 3 story lines about his youth, young adulthood, and elder years into a story full of life, including sadness and tragedy until the last sentence. also some insight into why the american south is the way it is. lyrical smooth prose.

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