Scott Brenner's "Jim McGee's reading list for aspiring knowledge workers"

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From McGee’s post…
"...If you want to improve your skills as a knowledge worker, you are pretty much confined to some form of self-directed learning strategy… I suspect that you could complete this reading in less than a year if you chose to."

http://futuretense.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/a_reading_list_for_aspiring_knowledge_workers.php

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  1. 1.
    Mindfulness
    by Ellen J. Langer

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    Teaching as a Subversive Activity
    by Neil Postman

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    Filters against Folly
    by Garrett Hardin

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  5. 6.
    Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
    by Patricia Ryan Madson

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  6. 7.
    How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)
    by Mortimer J. Adler

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  7. 8.
    Writing without Teachers
    by Peter Elbow

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  8. 9.
    Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
    by Anne Lamott

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  9. 10.
    Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
    by Gerald M. Weinberg

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  10. 12.
    Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas
    by James L. Adams

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  11. 13.
    Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard Paperbacks)
    by Christopher Alexander

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    The Design of Everyday Things
    by Donald A. Norman

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  14. 16.
    The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
    by Twyla Tharp

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    The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
    by Peter Block

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    Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
    by Louis Rosenfeld

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  20. 23.
    The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
    by Andrew Hunt

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  21. 24.
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    Information Anxiety

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  22. 25.
    Information Anxiety 2
    by Richard Saul Wurman

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Created by Scott Brenner on Jun 09, 2006.
 

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