My Pocket reading queue needs a summer cleaning. So what better way than to systemically get my reading done on weekends - archive the good ones for re-reads and toss out the bad. And along the way, I can suggest the cherry-picked ones for you to read :-)
How to give a killer presentation - by Chris Anderson, curator of TED. If you want to read one single useful article this week, make it this. Packed with all the TED goodness and more importantly timeless advice on pimping your presentation skills.
The scientific 7 minute workout - featured in New York Times wellness section. I try to clock in a similar routine, 30 mins each, three times a week. I stopped using weight machines since 2009 and only do free weight exercises. This is all you need to get a lean, fit body with super endurance and kicking metabolism (I guess nobody listens until something goes viral :)) Give it a shot!
The importance of quick and dirty - by Jason Fried of 37Signals. This is a brief article on how the speed of iteration beats the quality of iteration in software development. Something I talked about in an earlier blog on The Simple Rules to Winning Dogfights
Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi - featured in GQ; a gripping story of a Japanese chef who served North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-il. This almost read like a contemporary fiction replete with power, women, threats, secrets and other royal extravagance. Must read.
Are coders worth it? - a well-written piece in Aeon magazine. I always get asked this question by my parents - "Why are programmers paid so much?" and this article is the answer to it or rather part of the answer to it.
Brotherly Love - by Jhumpa Lahiri in The New Yorker's summer fiction issue, on two brothers growing up in the 1960's Calcutta, India; an excerpt from her forthcoming novel "The LowLand"
What are you reading this weekend?
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