I don't know about you, but I hate it there is too much to read each day from a single RSS feed. That's why I unsubscribed Engadget long ago. News feed can start off being very interesting, and as they became more successful there is pressure to keep up or even increase the update frequency. But no blog can generate tens of articles I find intersting everyday and do it indefinitely.
Today, I made one of my best snap decision of this year, picking "The Essential Drucker":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=829923 over "Inuyasha":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InuYasha as bath time companion.
It really is what I needed right now. At work, I'm doing a lot of staffing for new and existing position, and also fitting into a new role myself. Chapter 9, _Picking People—The Basic Rules,_ opened my eyes to a systematic and thought-through process of doing both well.
The 10-page read both set me into the right direction and preventing me from making mistakes I can see myself making. No small mistake as well.
Any book that can do that for you deserves the be read. I'm now set out for a chapter a day, which should be ok as most of them are not more than 20 pages, and are self-contained essays collected from Drucker's 60 years of writing.
I also own 2 other Drucker's books, "Managing for Results":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=683418 and "The Effective Executive,":http://www.librarything.com/card_card.php?book=683421 neither of which I spent more than 15 minutes on. I hope they will move out of my "unfinished":http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=unfinished&view=chrisada&she... collection soon.
I wrote "before":http://ichris.ws/node/900 about the "social networking":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking sites I used for serveral things. I have found myself to still use them a lot, with an addtion of "43Places.":http://www.43places.com/person/chrisada The bunch now include most facet of me that is open for "folksonomy;":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy music, to-do's, places, photos. But one thing is still sorely missed. Books.
I have since tried a few of them, and there are a few! After a while, I am still undecided which one to invest my time populating. Here are the list:
