NYC Blizzard of 2010 / Books I read in 2010

Him: “Streetsmart?” That’s what stupid people say when they don’t like to read or know anything about anything.

Did you have a nice holiday? Hope you did. Didn’t do much myself, just saw the folks and ate my weight in Chinese good. Nuthin beats homemade food, yeah?

Just got in from shoveling a ton of snow in the UWS. About two feet of drifts where I am. NYC’s pretty for about 20 minutes in times like this. Then everything turns grey and icy.

Since I’m working from home today, figured that I’d read. Don’t think I ever told you but I’m a business book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books. Read twenty-one books for them in 2010:

1. The Power Formula for Linkedin Success
2. Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-Free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business
3. Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms
4. Never Get a “Real” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business, and Not Go Broke
5. SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated Edition
6. Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation
7. The Referral Engine
8. Rework <- Excellent book
9. How the Mighty Fall . . . And Why Some Companies Never Give In <- ditto
10. The Law (in Plain English) for Photographers
11. The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
12. Mastering the VC Game
13. Design Is How It Works
14. Linchpin
15. The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business about Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth
16. The New Rules of Marketing and PR
17. The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics
18. Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will Is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates
19. Legal Guide for the Visual Artist
20. How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish Without a Trace
21. Free: The Future of a Radical Price <- ditto

Probably read about 25 books total this year. Use to read a lot more but I’ve been sleeping better so that’s gone down a bit.

Did you read any good books this year?

Location: my warm living room
Mood: cozy
Music: She looks around There are snowflakes on the ground
YASYCTAI: Stay in if you’re in NYC. It’s horrid out. (24 hrs/0.5 pt)
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