Design
Ponder the humble toaster. At most a person uses it less than 15 minutes/day. The remaining 1425 minutes of the day, the toaster is merely on display. 1% is devoted to utility, and 99% is devoted to significance. Why shouldn’t the toaster be beautiful? p80
Hospital rooms with ample natural light lead to less pain medication, and 21% fewer drug costs... Improving a school’s physical environment could increase test scores by 11% p82
Review Design Magazines for ideas...
Ambidexrous Design Magazine
How Design
iD Mag
Or visit http://www.ideo.com/
Good design is full of CRAP...
Contrast (if elements aren’t the same, make them very different), Repetition (repeating visual elements strengthens unity), Alignment (everything should be connected with another visual element on the page), Proximity (related items grouped together) p97
Story
StoryCorps
Listen and record the stories of your life and others around you.
Attend local story telling festivals.
Bay Area Storing Telling (Late Spring)
Read these books
Story by Robert Mckee
Stealing Fire from the Gods by James Bonnet
Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson
Symphony
Draw portraits with only 5 lines
Keep a metaphor log
Search for problems for existing solutions
a. where else would it work
b. flip it around, change the default
Read these books
Power of 10 by Charles Eames
Dialogue: the act of thinking together by William Isaacs
Metaphor by George Lakoff
No Waste by Laboratorio de creacion Maldeojo
Empathy
Empathy Quotient
Systematizing Quotient
Spot the Fake Smiles
Mind the Eyes
Play
www.laughteryoga.org
How funny are you?
Meaning
People have enough to live, but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning. - Robert William Fogel, Nobel Laureate
But Out!
Write down some changes you want in your life, and what stops you from doing it.
I want to lose weight, but I can’t stop eating my favorite foods.
Now change the ‘but’ into ‘and... so’, rewriting the statement
I want to lose weight, and I can’t stop eating my favorite foods, so I allow myself to indulge once a week with my favorites.
Read “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl
This is a blog of some of the noteworthy books that I have read. It started as a way for me to communicate my interests with friends and loved ones to help them understand my interests and a way for me to highlight passages for them to ponder. One day I will be gone, and this will be the library I leave behind for them. All this knowledge is free for all to learn from and grow. I hope you enjoy it and that it encourages you to continue your quest.
Books that will change the way you think
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- China Road by Rob Gifford
- Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille
- Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: Harvard Medical Guide to Healthy Eating by Walter Willett MD
- First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
- Happiness: The Science behind your smile by Daniel Nettle
- Harvard Medical School Guide to Men's Health by Harvey B Simon MD
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Moral Animal by Robert Wright
- Nurture Assumption by Judith Harris
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- Psychology of Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- Younger Next Year by Henry S Lodge MD
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About Me
- Ben Sharma
- This blog is for sharing my thoughts on some of the books that I read. My excerpts are not intended to replace the books themselves, but rather to document thought provoking passages and interesting phenomena. Enjoy and let me know if you come across some good books. -Ben
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