Whilst most of the work week is spent thinking and dreaming about growing web businesses (our own, our clients), there is just enough time to think about other stuff.

Just discovered: Industrial design magazine and community, Core77. Here are two fun stories tagged under ‘object-culture’ (you get the drift) to give you a taste  of what these guys think about: Early User-Interface Designs and the QWERTY keyboard and I read therefore I roll .

Reading now: Rework by 37 Signals founders Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson and Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur. Just for fun: Fever Of The Bone by Val McDermid (who writes the murder-strewn British TV series, Wire In The Blood).

Skimmed through: Monocle Magazine on start-ups; The Economist (special edition on creativity and innovation in the Tiger and ‘BRIC’ economies), and The Harvard Business Review on leadership in the “age of transparency” and getting caught in the “acceleration trap“.

Listened to: Future Tense on ABC Radio National. Favourite stories included an interview with (author and technology columnist at  The Daily Beast) Douglas Rushkoff about online marketplaces, virtual communities and web businesses; and some contemplative thoughts from ‘radical’ Californian cafe owner Sal Bednarz on why he switches off the cafe’s WiFi when the weekend arrives.

Now, dear reader, it’s your turn.