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2017 found my family and I finally settled, if a bit temporarily, in our new home in Cupertino, CA. We're renting and that will be the next major milestone we cross (buying a home). My son started First Grade, my wife continued her position at Cisco, and I'm still enjoying my position at ServiceNow (though I started a new role in 2018). In reviewing the books I read this year (22 titles), they were broken down in the following broad genres: Entertainment - 41% (down from 55%) Non-fiction - 27% (up from 15%) Computing - 5% (down from 15%) Biographies - 18% (up from 7.5%) Self-improvement - 9% (up from 7.5%) In my last What I've Read post,...

I recently saw an article on another blog where the author documents all of the books that he read during the course of the year. I like to think I read a lot and it's always a mix of professional, self-improvement, knowledge expansion, productivity, and entertainment. I liked the idea so much that I'm going to do the same here. This is my list from 2016, the permanent archive of everything will be here. 2016 has been one of the most stressful in my 46 years of life on this planet. Massive changes socially, personally, professionally, and societal have created a situation where I just want to see the year be over, so I can begin moving in a positive...

I’ve been on a bit of a Personal Productivity exploration for quite a while.  I can’t imagine how I got anything done in the past without my Daily Actions workflow.  One area of Personal Productivity is Education.  Dave Ramsey says, “Leaders Learn” and that’s what I’ve been doing recently. Some time ago, as I was starting my Productivity learnings, I read a bunch of articles by Asian Efficiency.  These guys take Personal Productivity and make it a passion, so they have lots of great articles.  Reading one of their articles on OmniFocus I saw in the background a Project that outlined how to read a book and process it over a long period of time.  The...