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Thanks

Jacob Bøtter — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:00:16 +0000

I currently follow 134 people on Twitter. Thanks for updating me everyday!

Booka Shade sneakers

Jacob Bøtter — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:11:18 +0000

I can’t believe you can’t buy a pair of the new K-Swiss Booka Shade sneakers. I need a pair of those. Bad.

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Stories

Jacob Bøtter — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:18:23 +0000

I have a habit, a habit of talking to people that I barely know, usualy in the oddest places, but also the common ones; the taxi, the train, the bus, on the street, in a cafe, etc. So over the years I’ve gotten to hear quite a few stories, and some especially interesting ones in the latter period where I’ve lived in Nørrebro.

That has made me think that I might need to start collecting these stories in some way, and maybe putting them together in some sort of compilation. It could be a book, I’m not quite sure if it’s the right medium.

What do you think? Would you care reading (or hearing, seeing, whatever medium) stories about everyday people that I’ve met? If the idea is a bit too abstract, please let me know and I’ll try and elaborate some more.

Food for 2008 thoughts and goals

Jacob Bøtter — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:57:35 +0000

Currently thinking about what 2008 will be like, and thought about making status of 2007, but then saw this..

“Never look back, unless you are planning to go that way” – Henry David Thoreau

Inbox Zero

Jacob Bøtter — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:57:11 +0000

Merlin Mann is one of those bloggers that has remained in my feed reader for ages. His blog, 43 Folders, just seems to keep pushing the right buttons when it comes to productivity. A group of people at Google seems to agree with me on that, and they invited him to speak about managing your inbox. A fantastic presentation emerged from it, I think a lot of us need to do something serious about the way we handle e-mail – here’s a few good ideas.

I have now practiced it on both company and personal inboxes and the results are pretty great. What a relief to look at an empty inbox. Take a look at the presentation here or at Google Video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Vacation reading

Jacob Bøtter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:33:45 +0000

Tomorrow I go on vacation. I am going to Norway. Around 10 days in a far out cabin by myself. Without electricity or wifi, but with a handful of books and a whole lot of silence. Exciting.

I thought I’d share which books I’m taking with me, primarily because I need some pointers on which ones to start with. I am pretty sure I’m not going to finish them all, but I have to at least read around a thousand pages. I can’t see why not.

“The Crowd” by Gustave Le Bon
I am currently pretty interested in group dynamics, crowd psychology and such. Pretty obvious since Connecta is currently spending a lot of time talking about collective intelligence, but to be honest I am really not very aware about the field. So after some googling and searching on LibraryThing I kept stumbling upon this rather classic book by Gustave Le Bon. I have never read a book on social psychology before, s that itself will probably be a test. Judging from the layout of the book it doesn’t seem quite as energetic as the books I’m used to reading, but I’ll give it a chance.

“Critical Mass” by Philip Ball
Moving from social psychology to modern physics, I got quite interested in this book after reading a few reviews. Judging by the cover and the title I thought it would just be some Gladwell lingobingo, but it seems valid. The book itself seems to be pretty intense though, so I’m very interested in hearing if anyone has any experiences with this book or it’s author?

“In Good Company” by Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak
I am having a lot of discussions around the term “Social Capital” these days. We are currently looking for a term to explain how to measure the value of e.g. relations in organizations. Today you would make a traditional ROI calculation looking at how efficient a team is, judging it entirely using “Physical Capital” as in cashflow, turnover etc. It seems that the term “Social Capital” has already been used in a lot of contexts, but not as much on an organizational scope. This book seems to deal with it though, I have not read much about it, just thought I had to bring it along and see what they think.

“Linked” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
This was a book that got quoted a lot at this years Reboot conference. Or at least I saw a lot of Barabasi quotes and went home googling to find out who he was. Seems he has written this rather interesting book that takes a look at relations and what the mean for everything from neurology to internet traffic. Seems like an easy read.

Apart from the books above I am also going to read some fiction books, I have an old Hemingway book lying around somewhere that I haven’t gotten through in the last few years, now must be the time. Oh and then I am also re-reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” for the third time. Previously I have just glanced through it or read a chapter here and there. I think it makes a lot more sense to read the entire book. I also have a lot of printed web articles and my 80 GB video iPod is full of talks by everyone from Clay Shirky (hat tip to Claus) to Tom Davenport (hat tip to Tine).