2011
Things I did this year that were new:
- Lost 30 pounds. Actually it was like 40. But the holidays got the better or me.
- Left my job at the company I founded.
- Got engaged.
And one thing that made the year very sad: Lost my friend Jill. It still hurts, every day.
Books I’ve read:
- Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Boomerang: Adventures of a Financial Disaster Tourist, by Michael Lewis
- 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
- The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris
- Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and its Creators, by Stephen Fox
- Understanding Media: Critical Edition, by Marshall MacLuhan
- Digital Hustlers, by Casey Kait
- Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District by Michael Indergaard
- Confessions of an Ad Man, by David Ogilvy
- A Grand Pursuit: A History of Economic Genius, by Sylvia Nasar
- AdLand: A Global History of Advertising by Mark Tungate
- Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
- The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers, by Michael Holroyd
- The Magician King, by Lev Grossman
- House of Holes, by Nicholson Baker
- Last of the Live Nude Girls, A Memoir, by Sheila McClear
- Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4Chan’s Army Conquered the Web, by Cole Stryker
- Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, by Annie Jacobsen
- I’m Feeling Lucky: Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, by Douglas Edwards
- The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking
- The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, by David Price
- The LIttle Book of Cloud Computing, 2011 Edition, by Lars Neilsen
- The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes inside Biosphere 2 by Jane Poynter
- The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques
- Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
- In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes our Lives, by Steven Levy
- Open by Andre Agassi
- Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos by Sarah Lacy
- Gossip Kills by Remy Norton
- The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era, by Teressa Iezzi
- The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
- The Metropolis Case by Matthew Galloway
- Dexter 1-5 by Jeff Lindsey
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
42 Books. I was shooting for 52, One a week. I made it in the second half of the year but not the first. Unemployment helped.
Travel. Would have liked to get out of the country more, but what can I say? I like America:
- Seoul, South Korea
- Tokyo, Japan
- Montego Bay, Jamaica
- Boston, something like 30 times
- Seattle, 5 times
- San Francisco 4 times
- Richmond, VA 3 times
- Austin twice
- Anchorage, AK
- Wasilla, AK
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
- Atlantic City
- Asbury Park
- Miami
- Palm Springs
- <road trip>Atlanta
- Orlando
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Savannah, GA
- Gainesville, FL
- A nice beach resort in Florida
- Coral Springs</road trip>
- Minneapolis + Road Trip back to NY
