Year: 2010

Skip breakfast (or at least eat very lightly) in order to tame my appetite.

Write a summary every time I finish reading a book.

Tell bedtime stories to my kids and do it with complete happiness.

Move my body a lot (e.g., by using the stairs instead of elevators).

Update Address Book for each new business card.

Laugh and smile much more than I barely manage to do. (Start with reading Erma Bombeck)

Continue to keep the workspace clean.

Continue to carry less stuff in my bag. More to come…]]>

I am reading Audition by Barbara Walters. (The translated copy is above, but I am reading mostly in English via Amazon Kindle.) Some impressions:

• It is a thick book but very comfortable read.
• The Korean translation is done well, too.
• The author uses simple words to weave rich, interesting stories. You don’t have to resort to heavy, lengthy words to tell a great story.
• It is amazing how much detail she can recount from her early days and of her elder family members. Perhaps she owes it to one of her relatives who volunteered to be the family historian. I wish I can write stories of my parents and grandparents with such vivid details and frankness sometime.
• The author grew up with an elder sister who lived with mental handicap. She candidly describes what it was like to feel responsible for her in many occasions.
• Reading on paper is great, but reading on Kindle is not so bad either.
• Some stories can be told only after the people involved have passed away.

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• Create your own letterhead as a part of personal integrated branding design plan.
• Give customized gifts to colleagues and business contacts for no reason at all.
• Clean up your desk spotless, leaving nothing at all on top of it every day.
• Buy professional-grade fonts and apply them to all the document you print out.
• Use Keynote instead of PowerPoint for preparing presentation materials.
• Print your own name card on top-notch stock paper of your own choice.
• Take selfies with unusual individuals and place the photo on your desk.
• Buy a copy of any New York Times bestseller and place it on your desk even if you won’t read it.
• Replace dull pictures on the wall with MOMA-grade art photography.
• Subscribe to an arts magazine on behalf of the office.
• Be a self-appointed photographer for client meetings and company events.
• Fill the office refrigerator with Perrier (or any other not-so-usual beverage) and let people enjoy it.
• Bring your team members to most unusual places for official lunch or dinner occasions.
• Send postcards to your family, friends, and colleagues during your business trips.
• Create your company’s annual report by yourself if your company does not publish one.
• Buy tickets to art exhibitions and musical shows for your boss
• Replace dull-looking wall clocks, wall calendars, trash cans with modern-looking, cool ones secretly.
• Draw mind map of the on-going discussions
• Summarize everything to one-page format, and then condense the ideas on that page into one short sentence
• Give names to everything you see in the office in your own way
• Don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness.

January

• Jeff Sharlet, The Family
• John Bevere, Breaking Intimidation – 아내가 선물한 책 (finished on Jan 22)
• Larry Burkett, Your Finances In Changing Times (번역본 “하나님, 돈을 어떻게 쓸까요?”, CUP) – 일년의 재무 계획에 참고하기 위해 보는 책. (finished on Jan 19)
• 로저 마틴, 책임감 중독
• Barbara Walters, Audition (번역본 “내 인생의 오디션”) – 독서 모임 1월 선정 도서.
• Robin Williams, The Non-Designer’s Design Book (번역본: 디자인이 뭐야? 타이포그라피가 뭐야? 장동근 편역) – 번역 프로젝트 관련해서 참고하기 위해 읽는 책.
• SERI 전망 2010 – 한번 쯤은 읽어봐야 하겠기에. 연초에 안 읽으면 못 읽을 것 같아서 1월 중에 읽으려고 함.
• 헤럴드 경제 2010 비즈맵 – 작년부터 이런 업계 지도 책류가 나오기 시작했는데 이 책 그림이 비교적 깔끔하게 그려진 것 같음.
• 김두봉 장로 회고록 “기도로 지은 집“, 쿰란출판사 – 아내 친구가 자기 시아버님 이야기라고 하면서 선물해 준 책. 의외로 재미있음.

February

• Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational (번역본: “상식밖의 경제학”) – TED.com에서 Dan Ariely의 강연을 보고 구입한 책, 독서 모임 2월 선정 도서.
• 이희재, 번역의 탄생 – 번역을 위한 참고서
• 외르크 크놉라우흐, 하나님 나라에 속한 기업
• Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen Design – 번역할 책 검토

• William P. Young, The Shack – 베스트셀러라고 하기에 읽어보려고.
• Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Alain De Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work – 알랭 드 보통의 “행복의 건축”을 읽으려고 놓아두었다가 잃어버린 억울함 때문에 새로 구입한 같은 저자의 다른 책
• Ted Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart (번역본: 마음을 다루면 자녀의 미래가 달라진다) – 아내가 선물한 책

March

• Bob Pike, Creative Training Techniques Handbook (번역본: 밥 파이크의 창의적 교수법, 김경섭, 유제필 옮김)
• Michael Pollan, In Defence of Food – 누나가 추천한 책
• 마이클 폴란, 잡식동물의 딜레마
• Sue Halpern, Can’t Remember What I Forgot
• Charles Handy, Myself and Other More Important Matters (번역본: 포트폴리오 인생)

April

• Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language – 몇 년 째 읽으려고 했지만 아직 일부 밖에 읽지 못했음.
• 정약용 저, 박석무 역, 유배지에서 보낸 편지
• Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
• 小山 昇, 経営の見える化
• 泉 正人, お金の大事な話
• 柳井 正, ユニクロ思考術

May

• 가와시마 고타로, “야나이 다다시, 유니클로 이야기“
• 켄 로빈슨, 내 안의 창의력을 깨우는 일곱가지 법칙
• 로저 마틴, 책임감 중독 : 조직의 도전 정신을 없애는

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