Resources

Everything I know I learned from somewhere.

Below is a list of resources I have drawn on while writing these posts. Unless specifically mentioned, I have actually read, watched or used everything on this list.


Business
Leadership and Organizational Life
- The Corner Office: How Top CEOs Made It and How You Can Too - Adam Bryant
- The Rules of Work - Richard Templar
- Feynman - Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick
Self-development
- It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World’s Best Selling Book - Paul Arden
- Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite - Paul Arden
- Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction - Adele Westbrook and Oscar Ratti
Industry practice
- FuelRCA - the Royal College of Art professional development service
- Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy

Design
Typography
- The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces - Stephen Coles
- Thinking with Type - Ellen Lupton (web resource)
- Thinking with Type - Ellen Lupton (book)
- Typography for Lawyers - Matthew Butterick
- Practical Typography - Matthew Butterick
Layout and Data Representation
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
- Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte
- Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative - Edward Tufte
- Beautiful Evidence - Edward Tufte
- Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface - Bret Victor

Tools
Software
- Omnigraffle
- LaTeX + Aquamacs

Fun
Children’s Literature
- Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown
- Danny and the Dinosaur- Syd Hoff
- Stanley - Syd Hoff
- Who Will Be My Friends? - Syd Hoff
- Sammy the Seal - Syd Hoff
- Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
- Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months - Maurice Sendak
- The Case of the Cat’s Meow - Crosby Bonsall
Infrastructure and Systems
- The Works: Anatomy of a City - Kate Ascher
- The Great Indian Railway Atlas - Samit Roychoudhury

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