How to Come Up With an Amazing Reading list for 2017 in 5 Minutes
(with the help of Slack and your friends)
It’s 2017 and time to make a reading list for the coming year. I know that an ordered list is the best way to make sure I read continuously and that I don’t get caught up trying to select what to read next.
But how to come up with your reading list? There are a lot of ways that involve thought and effort and, who knows, these might be effective. But you have at your fingertips an easier way: Slack!
On a quiet afternoon send the following DM (don’t use a public channel for this!) to a selection of coworkers:
Typos aside, this innocent question will give you a great, wide ranging list of books to read in the coming year. And more importantly you will learn a lot of interesting things about your colleagues!
This is the list I got from this exercise:
- The Smartest Guys in the Room
- One Minute to Midnight
- Fences (play)
- Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs
- Shoe Dog
- How Will You Measure Your Life
- A Sense of Urgency
- Now: The Physics of Time
- Hard Things about Hard Things
- Managing Humans
- Predictably Irrational
- Seveneves
- Dataclysm — Love, Sex, Race and Identity
