This entry is part of the erelevant Virtual Reading Group.

I am a passionate, sometimes brash, and always opinionated person, which a cursory glance over the archives will probably show you. I tend to get emotionally invested in what I’m doing, which can sometimes have disastrous effects in the workplace. As a result of my demeanor and the way that I often approach conflicts full of piss and vinegar, I have had several people recommend to me that I read The Art of War with an eye towards how I can use it to achieve collaborative goals and settle disputes peacefully within the workplace. The Art of War has long been a popular corporate-culture handbook, and it has even been applied to marketing. For all these reasons, I thought it would be an interesting book to kick-off the virtual reading group.

Here is a tentative reading schedule that I may need to tweak once or twice, depending on how fast or slow the reading goes (it’s hard to tell with books like this where a chapter is only a few words, but each word caries great gravitas). I chose Thomas Cleary’s translation both because it is widely available and also because it came highly recommended by a friend who has studied Taoism and Tai Chi.

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[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.

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