Better late than never. 201 was quite a year with lots of risks, mistakes and challenges. A lot learned and it’s time to jump start 2012 and make it awesome. As I am not a big fun of sharing personal stuff and goals, let me share with you the best books, films and music I stumbled upon in 2011. Who knows, maybe you will finding something interesting for yourself as well. Or maybe I will caution you from something that is not all that great.
So, what was worth spending time on this year?
Films
- Best: Everything is a Remix, Exit through the Gift Shop, The Social Network, History of English language in 10 min, Human Planet Series, Stanford Prison experiment documentary;
- Good: BBC: 2011 Do You See What I See, BBC: An African Journey, BBC: Inside Facebook, BBC: The Life Of The Buddha, Benjamin Franklin documentary (PBS), Full Circle with Michael Palin, Incredible human journey, Khodorkovsky 2011, Limitless, Little Man (short film), Midnight in Paris, Protagonist, Smartest Guys in the Room: Enron, Submarine, The Inside Job, Too Big to Fail, new episodes of Big Bang Theory;
- So-so (did not finish many of them): BBC: Chinese are coming, BBC: Okinawa aquarium, Casino Royale, Life in a day, Moon 2112, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Просветление гарантировано (Erleuchtung garantiert);
- Certainly not for me (finished none of them): 127 hours, Everything is Gone Green, The Good Night, Wild Target.
Music
Cool discoveries of 2010-2011: Baba Brinkman, Blank & Jones, John Lenehan, Ludovico Einaudi, Nujabes, St. Germain, The XX, Tosca, (relatively) new albums by Chicane and Mattafix.
Books
- Best: Geography of Bliss, Get the Edge, The Four Hour Body, Steve Jobs (reading it now), Surely, You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Siddhartha;
- Good: A short history of nearly everything, Business Model Generation (reading it now), Delivering Happines, Getting to YES, Ghost in the Wires, Happiness, A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, Introducing NLP (reading it now), Physics of the Impossible, Ogilvy on Advertising, Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, Stumbling on Happiness, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy;
- So-do (did not finish many of them): 8th habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, Atlas Shrugged, How Pleasure Work, Problogger – blogging secrets, The First 90 Days – Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders, The Goal, Working with emotional intelligence, Lolita, Financier, some Chekhov short-stories;
- Certainly not for me (finished none): Green Hills of Africa, On the Road, Solar, Ultimate secrets of total self-confidence, Generation A.
Blog
As I recommend books to read why not look back and mention some of the posts on this blog that I think worth reading if you missed them at the time they were posted?
- Reading: Business model generation, Summary of Succeed: how we can reach our goals, How to win any negotiation: summary of “Getting to Yes” by William Ury, Лушие книги о карьере, профессиональном росте и саморазвитии, Favorite blogs;
- Watching: TED-conference alternatives: best edutainment videos from PopTech conference, Singularity University, Learning Without Frontiers & OpenCulture, Validation: funny and intelligent short film, Geniuses, savants and gifted children, Best ad campaigns of all time: Nike, Intel, Apple and others, The most watched and most highly-rated TED talks at the moment;
- Traveling: Ao Nang Krabi, Thailand + breath-taking pictures, Shortest guide to free or radically cheap travel, Singapore;
- Health & fitness: 23andme review, Tabata burpees: 4-minutes high-intensity interval workout, Optimizing health through nutrition: paleo/primal solution,
- Web-services & gadgets: Android apps: best and free on the market, “If this then that” review: a new web 2.0 tool;
- Background music at work;
- And for those who are “in the club”, GMAT-brainteasers;
- And of course, you can find more recommendations of great stuff in digest.
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