Selected Reading

I read 20-30 long form essays and articles each week, culled from various online sources. I tend to enjoy non-fiction pieces about business, technology, design, music, writing, psychology and life.

What follows is a compilation of the very best of that writing, updated semi-regularly.

1/30/12

Twitter Was Act One

A Twee Grows in Brooklyn

Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles

10 Steps to Better Blogging

Fog Creek Compensation

1/25/12

One-Way Street

You Are Not Running Out of Time

My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

Seven Things Designers Can Learn From Stand Up Comics

There Are Some People Who Don’t Wait

The Science of Irrationality

On Losing Your Marbles

10/12/11

GeekStack Postmortem

The Man Who Inspired Jobs

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds

Indy Hall Coworking Expands to Offer Cohousing

Buildings, Health and Creativity

Teamwork Ground Rules

I Am Nothing

9/9/11

Master of Play

Allen Iverson: Fallen Star

Inside the Deal That Made Bill Gates $350,000,000

Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities

The Two Paths to Success

Obsession Times Voice

7/15/11

One Way Street

12/24/10

The Plot Escapes Me

The Secret of Self-Control

With a Little Help From His Friends

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism

Now That We’ve Got It, What Have We Got?

Settling Down Without Settling

Shooting for the Sun

The Hit Whisperer

11/17/10

The Illusion of Winning

Is There Anything Good About Men?

Fishing With Strawberries

Clouds and Coins

11/1/10

Topic of Cancer

In Defense of Marriage

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

The Man in the Glass House

35 Lessons in 35 Years

Hiring Religion

7/27/10

Sledgehammer and Whore

How To Lose Time And Money

Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now

The Pot And How To Use It

The Helvetica Killer

Nighthawks

7/19/10

Solitude and Leadership

Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

Alone, With Words

7/11/10

Chairman’s Letter - 1985

Advice For My Brothers (and For You)

The Sure Thing

7/3/10

Advice on Beating a Hangover

The Landscape - Marfa, Texas Pt. 1

Art, Money, Industry and Landscape - Marfa, Texas Pt. 2

Why Change is So Hard: Self-Control is Exhaustible

Are Funny Women Intimidating?

We Are What We Choose

6/20/10

After 15 years of practice…

Creatives Don’t Believe in Advertising

An Interview with Dave Eggers

Timing It

6/5/10

How To Do What You Love

What To Do With Your Millions

Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity

Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

Vonnegut: How To Write With Style

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

Pat Metheny on Kenny G

Ideas: Frank Chimero

Better

Loading tweets...

@timhackbarth

The sub-par, yet slowly improving missives of Tim Hackbarth, man about town in Austin, TX.