It’s been a weird year. I think I did some of my best writing this year, and also some of the worst. I wrote some great anchor posts, but I also posted several pieces that I now regard as being far too hasty, fluffy and/or self-indulgent. A high-variance year in short. Mostly a result of this being a very busy year on multiple other fronts: a lot of blogging for work (including a lot of guest posting), a product launch, a lot of work on my book, and the launch of the Be Slightly Evil mailing list (about 20 newsletters mailed out so far). The year has been an exercise in portfolio management.
So overall, I am pleased, but definitely not satisfied. I am going to set more brutal quality standards for myself next year. Here’s the full list of posts for 2010 in chronological order. The ones in bold are either popular or personal favorites. Here are 2009, 2008 and 2007 roundups for new-in-2010 readers who want to make this a ribbonfarm holiday marathon and catch up on previous seasons (you may want to print out a dozen or two posts to take with you on any vacation travels). This will be the last post of the year, so see you in 2011!
- On the Deathly Cold
- Drive by Dan Pink
- “Up in the Air” and the Future of Work
- Impro by Keith Johnstone
- The Misanthrope’s Guide to the End of the World
- The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle
- Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Safar aur Musafir: The Hero’s Journey in Bollywood
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor
- The Inquisition of the Entrepreneur
- The Expedient, Desirable Product
- An Infrastructure Pilgrimage
- Linchpin by Seth Godin, and 8 Other Short Book Reviews
- The Turpentine Effect
- Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
- An Elephant, Some Batteries and Julianne Moore
- Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
- The Gervais Principle III: The Curse of Development
- The Lords of Strategy by Walter Kiechel
- Intellectual Gluttony
- In the Real World…
- Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing
- The Missing Folkways of Globalization
- WOM, Broadcast and the Classical Marketing Contract
- The Philosopher’s Abacus
- Becalmed in the Summer Doldrums
- The Eight Metaphors of Organization
- The Happy Company
- A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
- Down with Innovation, Up with Imitation!
- How to Take a Walk
- Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm.
- The Greasy, Fix-It ‘Web of Intent’ Vision
- Morning is Wiser Than Evening
- King Gustavus’ Folly: The Story of the Vasa
- Cricket as Metaphor
- The Seven Dimensions of Positioning
- Learning from One Data Point
- How Good Becomes the Enemy of Great
- The Gervais Principle IV: Wonderful Human Beings
- Coloring the Whole Egg: Fixing Integrated Marketing
- Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
- Ancient Rivers of Money
- The World of Garbage
- What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the Poor
- What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
- Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora