Book recommendations from ‘So good they cannot ignore you’ by Cal Newport
- Daniel H. Pink, “What Happened to Your Parachute?” FastCompany.com, August 31, 1999, http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/27/bolles.html.
- Djakow, Petrowski, and Rudik, Psychologie des Schachspiels [Psychology of Chess] (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1927).
- Charness, Tuffiash, Krampe, et al., “The Role of Deliberate Practice in Chess Expertise,” Applied Cognitive Psychology 19, no. 2 (2005): 151–65.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008).
- Ericsson and Lehmann, “Expert and Exceptional Performance: Evidence of Maximal Adaptation to Task Constraints,” Annual Review of Psychology 47 (1996): 273–305.
- Ericsson, Anders K. “Expert Performance and Deliberate Practice,” http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html.
- Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else (New York: Portfolio Hardcover, 2008).
- Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (New York: Riverhead Hardcover, 2009).
- “ROWE Business Case,” Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), http://gorowe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ROWE-Business-Case.pdf.
- “Derek Sivers: How to start a movement,” TED.com, video posted online April 2010, http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html.
- Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (New York: Riverhead Hardcover, 2010).
- Peter Sims, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (New York: Free Press, 2011).
- Seth Godin, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (New York: Portfolio Hardcover, 2003).
- Chad Fowler, My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers) (Raleigh, NC: Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005).
- Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams [paperback] (New York: Vintage, 2004)