At that point in the summer where it seems that it was just Memorial Day and now it’s the Fourth of July. What has happened?
In my case, mostly a lot of reading. I am working my way through all the books I learned about while at MIT 7, i.e. a lot of books sold at the MIT Press bookstore, and some other books people talked about at the conference. But on the other hand, I’ve also been making many visits to the new book shelf at my local public library and reading some fun books. I used to track what I was reading on my blog, now I mostly write it out on Goodreads. Here are some recent reads.
Margaret’s bookshelf: read
The last few days I’ve been messing around with Google+ as a form of “professional development.” I doubt it will be a Facebook killer, to me it seems like it will be a nice supplement to Twitter. But that’s possibly because the only people I am following so far I also follow on Twitter.
I also bought some barefoot shoes. I doubt I will take up running, but I do think this will make hikes and packing sneakers for air travel more appealing. Reading about barefoot did make me wonder if it would be possible for me to become more athletic. There’s always been a lot of “no I can’t” or “that’s not for me”, but over the last year I’ve discovered that many of my assumptions about my capabilities and proclivities were wrong. Or, perhaps, to look at it another way, I started using my brain to think about things differently, which shaped my neural pathways into feeling more comfortable with something. Obviously there is both good and bad with this.
Will return to regularly scheduled content later.