Ho‘ohana Aloha

Love what Julien Smith has done here, for it serves as a personal, jacket-illustrated catalog of his reading and learning.

I recently realized that I’d been reading a book every week now for about 5 years straight.

It kind of made me wonder: what did I really learn? Am I smarter than I used to be?

He’s captured the thesis of each book in 140 characters (so I assume as he tweeted them), similar to how others will do so with index cards; imagine how retrievable they become as his resource library.

File this one in your ‘Ike loa index - the value of lifelong learning, curated for supreme usefulness!

Also, if you missed it earlier: Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level”

My Sunday morning ritual includes leisurely reading time to scour the blogs I subscribe to. If you share this habit with me, and are interested in Alaka‘i, the value of leadership, do add Eric’s blog to your reader, for he consistently finds great gems to share with us, like these two:

Ignoring the Impossible by Jamie Notter

Quote: I feel like we should come clean and admit that none of us really knows what we’re doing when it comes to management. We’ve had our experiences and many of us have built successful workplaces, and a lot of what we’ve done is great–but we really can’t say what is possible or impossible. And while I don’t hold up one exception as a perfect “model” to be copied by everyone, I do get excited when I see the impossible happening in real life. It’s inspiration for me to try doing things differently. Because that’s what our workplaces desperately need right now.

Purpose Can Not Be Rationalized by Simon Sinek on Re:Focus

Quote: There is no contract on the planet that can force me to violate what I stand for. I will lose money and I will certainly ruffle some feathers…and that’s fine by me.  They will all get over it in due course…I wouldn’t. They will rationalize why I was the wrong person for the job anyway. But I could never feel whole for showing up, no matter how much money they offered. Money is a calculation. My values are who I am.

Loving this blog curation by Shaun Usher; would reblog it constantly if it were a Tumblr!

Recent faves:

• How to Write: Advice from advertising legend David Ogilvy
• Wartime Golf Rules: As the Battle of Britain began to take hold in 1940, a bomb fell on an outbuilding belonging to Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England. As a result, the club — rather than halt future rounds of golf — issued an incredible list of temporary golf rules to all members that took into account the potentially life-threatening conditions on the course.
• Edison’s To-Do List: From the notebooks of Thomas Edison — the fourth most prolific inventor in history, and as such a ridiculously busy man — comes a five-page to-do list, handwritten in January of 1888 when Edison was still just 40 years of age.
• Things to worry about: In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about.
• 10 Commandments for Guitar Playing: In 1976, Moris Tepper joined Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band as guitarist; Tepper was handed the “Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing,” as written by Beefheart himself.

I could keep going, but you should just subscribe too.