Let’s read more … but not with the iPad

We have a practice at home: one day per week we have a ‘reading evening’. No TV is allowed: after dinner we take a book and we read all together.

Now what’s happening lately is that my 8-yrs-old digital-native heavy-iPad-user computer-enthusiast son started saying:

“OK Dad tonight we have our reading evening and you cannot read with the iPad, you have to use a paper book”

So I asked:

“why????”

And he said …. ok I don’t want to tell you the answer immediately :).

You guess: why he doesn’t want me to read with the iPad?

PierG

Summer reading, 2011

Thanks to the post Summer Reading, 2011 of Seth Godin, I’ve found a very good list of Summer Reading, 2011 : I’m glad to see that most of them are already on my Kindle.

Here is some suggestions from PierG, some old and new books you may want to try this summer:

• The Goal – E.Goldratt: a must read also to remember his recent death. If you have not read it, do it now!
• Reality is broken – J.McGonigal: the last part of the title says it all “Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”. Read it especially if you are NOT a gamer (I am not)
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – S.Godin: are you tired of your work, do you want to ‘interpret’ your working experience in a different way? Give it a try!
• The happiness manifesto – N.Marks: not much more to write, the title says it all
• My voice will go with you – M.Erickson: here again the title says it all “the teaching tales of M.Erickson” (M.Erickson is the father of Ericksonian hypnosis)
• Extreme Programming Explained – K.Beck, C.Andres: if you are in the sw development space you should read it AT LEAST once every year

That’s all for this summer, happy reading and … what would you add to this list especially for this summer??

PierG