Month: January 2015

2014 is a tough and rough year.

However it is also a good year, as I kind of picked up reading again (thanks to the Kindle Paperwhite II, my fourth Kindle), even though I am still a slow reader. Managed to only finish 20 Kindle eBooks this year, and my favourite ones are “Stuffocation“, “Lean Startup“, “Service Design” and “Pitch Perfect“.

The 20 books in reading sequence …

1. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
3. Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking
4. Chariots of the Gods
5. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
6. Stuffocation
7. Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
8. The Fortune Cookie Principle : The 20 Keys to a Great Brand Story and Why Your Business Needs One
9. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
10. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
11. Difference: The one-page method for reimagining your business and reinventing your marketing
12. Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
13. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
14. Service Design: From Insight to Implementation
15. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
16. The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
17. Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
18. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
19. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
20. The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History’s Greatest Mystery Revealed

Still, there are a few books in the Kindle impatiently waiting … shall be good for the next three, four months !!

1. The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids (a reread)
2. The FastDiet – Revised & Updated: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting
3. Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification
4. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
5. The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users
6. The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch
7. Flash Boys

Keep reading !!