Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs
Hello again!
'Tis the season of giving, and hopefully most of you will have a little more time to do some reading, so I thought this would be a good time to share the following links with you.
Free eBooks
In the last few months we've seen a bunch of good free eBooks come out. I'm not sure how this trend started, but I suspect this TechZingLive interview with Jason Cohen might have something to do with it. 🙂
Here are four eBooks I think you might like, which are all free:
- "Don't Just Roll The Dice - A usefully short guide on software pricing" by Neil Davidson
- "Building the Perfect Beast: The Igor Naming Guide to Creating Product and Company Names" by Igor
- "What Matters Now" a collection of one-page nuggets of wisdom collected by Seth Godin
- "The Fable of User-Centered Design" by UserFocus
Do you know any other good eBooks along these lines? Don't be shy and post the links in the comments if you do! 🙂
My favorite non-tech blogs
I follow A LOT of blogs, mostly tech and business stuff. It's all good and useful, but the echo-chamber makes me a bit queasy after a while.
That's when I like to look at these:
- Letters of Note - these are always entertaining
- Today and Tomorrow - crazy digital art, designy furniture and artsy animated GIFs (remember those?)
- Strange Maps - for map nerds like me
- The Big Picture on boston.com. A view of our World through gorgeous, always though-provoking pictures
- Indexed - I just started following this one recently. Very smart stuff, plus I have a soft spot for hand-drawn things 😉
- Minimal - not at the same level of the ones above, but quick to read
What are your favorite "escape from the technosphere" blogs?
Have a great holiday break everyone, happy reading!
Comments (4)
Although not tech books, all of my writings (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) are available as free .PDF downloads at http://www.lulu.com/blackbirdcraven
You can also find my two “Warble McGorkle” novels in various formats at http://www.feedbooks.com — search either for “Warble McGorkle” or my nom de plume when writing fiction, “Blackbird Crow Raven”
I like Zen Habits: http://www.zenhabits.net
Great Saas Sales Advice: 3 eBooks all by Joel York
SaaS Success-Top Ten Dos and Don’ts
http://www.saas-business.com/
SaaS Sales Management Tips
http://chaotic-flow.com/media/saas-sales-management-tips.pdf
SaaS Model Economics 101
http://chaotic-flow.com/2009/05/04/saas-competitive-advantage-saas-economics-101-e-book/
I enjoyed Steve Browne’s book “Traction”, an introduction to the whole “sales thing” for startup entrepreneurs http://www.innovatorstraction.com/