By @SimonCocking. Reading a book can be great, no flashing notifications, status updates or other distractions. For us, when we pull out a book it is consciously offline, non screen time, to focus on bigger ideas, bigger pictures, and deeper insights. How much longer will this continue? For a while longer we hope there will still be hard copy versions of books published. Here are another 21 that we found to be insightful and useful. Read, compare, contrast, agree, disagree we look forward to hearing from you. Title image from pixabay.

The Misfit Economy, lessons in creativity from pirates, hackers, gangsters and other informal entrepreneurs

The Frugal Innovator by Charles Leadbeater, inspiration for businesses in 2016

Atlantic Light reviewed. The challenges of photographing the Irish Wild Atlantic Way

Barry M Katz’s Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design, reviewed by Alan Dargan

The Pitch Coach by Catherine Moonan reviewed

Future crimes and the dark side of technology, reviewed by Ron Immink

“Social Media for your student and graduate job search” by Marielle Kelly

The hard thing about doing hard things, and how it increased my LinkedIn views 900% by Ben Butler

Jack, Business Lessons from life, life lessons from business, author Blaise Brosnan interviewed

Should drones ever be used to kill people? Opposing perspectives on the drone debate by Bradley Strawser.

Mobile Banking, Evolution or Revolution by Bernardo Nicoletti

How to deliver a killer TEDx talk. A review of “Live your talks” by Jojanneke Van Den Bosch

Review of Sprint by Jake Knapp, How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just 5 days.

Review of Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane by Brett King

Review of The Art of Possible, by Kate Tojeiro

Talk is cheap, Digital PR for Startups by Leanne Ross reviewed

Review of The leader’s guide to negotiation by Simon Horton,

Review of Smart Cities as democratic ecologies, edited by Daniel Araya

We are negotiating all the time. Simon Horton, author of the Leader’s guide to negotiation interviewed

Change or die, the future for banks and global banking. Chris Skinner’s ValueWeb reviewed

The Wolf comes to Dublin, an audience with Jordan Belfort

The Business of Sharing, by Alex Stephany, review & interview


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