Great tips on how to relate well to your customers. Mostly – make them feel great.
A wiki to collect howtos for everything. How can this not end up being cool?
Excellent site with all kinds of stuff relating to biking. Tips, tricks, essays and the like, and lots of it. Poor guy was killed a few years back by a drunk driver… Theres also all kinds of good stuff on his site.
Nice howto on light metering for your photos.
Christopher Alexander
A great book detailing some widely applicable ways to design building, and why. Taken from studies conducted by Alexander and his architectural students and colleagues from The Center for Environmental Studies at the University of California, Berkely.
Tom Stafford & Matt Webb
Mind Hacks is an interesting look at how we use our brains everyday in different situations. It’s a very active book, showing principles of brain psychology concretely in ways that anyone can try out by themselves or with neat tricks posted somewhere on the internet.
Sort of like my favorite childhood book – How Things Work. A good look at, well, how things get made. From the faq:
HowStuffisMade is a visual encyclopedia documenting the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental accounts of contemporary products.