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Rob Bell: How to be here (2016)

"New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell shows us how to discover the greatness we …

Review of 'How to be here' on 'Goodreads'

Short book which helps you to focus on your life at hand. What happens right now, in this exact moment? Are you fully aware?

Partly interesting stories. Somewhat repetitive. Helpful.

Jason Schreier: Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

Examines the development process of such marquee video games as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars, and …

Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels' on 'Goodreads'

Very interesting read. It's more like 8 or 9 mini books within one book, written in the same style.

Due to the fact that I, myself am part of the games industry a lot of patters seem familiar and I was able to explain a lot of behavior which I was able to observe at Bigpoint over the last 8 years or so.

Sure, a game team is a complex system but I doubt that crunch and chaos is inevitable. In the end agile methods, tools and principles are developed to help in a complex environment (in the end every team, group, company is a complex system on its own).

Ernest Cline: Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) (Paperback, 2011, Crown Publishers)

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American …

Review of 'Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

Interested in RPG's and/or interested in the 80's this book is for you.

Ok, I finished 80% of the book within one day. I couldn't put it away. There are a lot of mysterious and riddles in it which make it stay exciting.
And I am looking forward to the movie which starts next week.

Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein: Nudge (Hardcover, Yale University Press)

Review of 'Nudge' on 'Goodreads'

Read about 60-70% of the book. Interesting stories but not surprising. If you are currently designing decision processes for a wide audience it's probably a very good read but to get an overview of the topic reading half of the book was more than enough.

hat Dark Matter von Blake Crouch besprochen (Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf)

Blake Crouch: Dark Matter (2016)

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife …

Review of 'Dark Matter' on 'Goodreads'

Really thrilling book. Has, of cause, minor flaws regarding paradox problems but that's not uncommon if you take the story and the technique into account.

Was a fun and thrilling read from cover to cover.

David Allen: Making it all work (Hardcover, 2008, Viking)

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done. David Allen's Getting …

Review of 'Making it all work' on 'Goodreads'

I am a bit torn between the message (which is helpful and important), the length (which is at least 3 times longer than it should be) and the style (which is his typical habitus).

If think it is inevitable to think about your upper flight levels (goals, purpose, values, ...) if you were able to clean the flight deck. I don't think you need hundred of pages for that. There is a lot of repetition within the book and also between this book and "Getting Things Done".

There are not many sketches in the book. This together with his typical talking style (which you can hear in the podcast all the time) let's me suggest the audio version (although I haven't heard it), probably on 2-3 times faster than normal.