What are you working on?

jsalvatier

Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

Book suggestions are very welcome.

Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power. About the same level of cynicism as Hanson but more instructional. Very entertaining. :)

Really? From what I've read of Greene's books (while I was stayed in "User:"Cosmos's room in NYC...), his general format seems to be:

1) Give gripping narrative of historical event.
2) Shoehorn the event to use as validation for some vaguely-specified "law" ("Don't be afraid", "act covertly", etc.)

EDIT: And that can probably be expanded to:

3) When you have enough of these, combine them into a book.
4) In response to popularity, generate new books, scraping bottom of barrel as necessary.

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A problem with knowing about such 'laws' is that you'll start perceiving false positives in other people and will hate them for using those techniques against you.

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