w00t for Webster's

Via Robin Meade this morning, Webster's 2007 word of the year is w00t!

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The Sunday Linker: 11/4/07

• The economics of sugar daddying.
  
• We all have the need to show we're grateful. Here are 10 great ways to show it. BONUS: If you've got a long plane ride coming up and really want to change your life, pick up a copy of Are You Ready to Succeed? by Srikumar Rao.
  
• Your alarm goes off, time for work. What to do with your pajamas?
• Use Firefox? Keep any eye on your procrastination with MeeTimer.

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Word Bank: Vol. 1

I am not the best writer in the world nor do I pretend to be. Whether it is on this blog, writing letters to friends and colleagues or responding to work e-mail, I always find myself looking for the best words to set the scene for the problem or topic at hand. Here are some words I love to use when writing.

• salient
• putative
• detritus
• venerable
• reverence
• granular
• catalyst
• circulate
• centric
  

Live First, Work Second

YP Commons is quickly becoming one of my favorite blog spots on the web. Learning the nuances of different generations is a coveted pastime of mine and the Next Generation Consulting group does a fine job feeding the need. The latest book by Rebecca Ryan, Live First, Work Second, has become a hot topic on the aforementioned blog and it has certainly perked my interest. Here is a review excerpt from Dave Atkins:

I'd like to get a better feel for how much of this is generational and how much is occupational. If you are a 24-year old working as a mechanic at Midas, does any of this apply to you? If you are a 40-year old in a web startup company, don't you have the same perspective on work and life as the millenials? I'm not looking for an "ivory tower" statistical study, but I question what the cross-generational disparity in opportunity/experience means for community engagement...

Listen Up Leaders: 7 Types of Storytelling

Storytelling is often one of the best ways to motivate those around you, both above and below on the food chain. Steve Denning's 7 Types of Storytelling should help you get off to a good start in telling tales of triumph and victory.

Read or Die: My Reading List

That's what I keep telling myself. I find myself in Barnes & Noble or Borders constantly, piling book after book in my hands. Yet, I never catch myself reading any of them after I return home. Sigh. Hopefully, that will change after reading Zen Habits' 20 Simple Ways to Become a Bookworm. Off I go abiding by Leo's #2 suggestion: Keep a reading list.

1. The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
2. Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
3. Moneyball - Michael Lewis
4. The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss

That should keep me busy through the end of next year.