Salutations!

Hey fellas,

I'm honored to have been invited to participate in your studies of Nuclear Braiology.. I am humbled by the braintrust I see participating in the discussion, and I hope I can adequately contribute. I don't get to surf and read as much as I would like due to my workload right now, but I'll do my best.

Unlike the rest of you, I'm not as focused on politics right now as I have been in the past, so hopefully I can add some value in other areas. I'll rely on you guys to form my political mindset - I'm all about outsourcing some of my thinking. :)

As a tech guy I have several technology related sources I recommend you follow. My curiousities are pretty expansive in other subjects, so I'll just do my best to share interesting things as they come up..

Podcasts
(w/ all podcasts I recommend you use either Apple [new podcast app for iPad and iPhone, btw] or Stitcher to get your feed)

Freakonomics - by the authors of the book by the same name. Often interesting, occasionally silly, and certainly worth a listen when commuting. Hay loves this.
This Week in Tech (TWiT) - a group of tech pundits sit around and discuss the week in... wait for it... tech! The personalities make the show fun, and I think
Here's the Thing - Alec Baldwin interviews famous people. I don't always agree with everything said (obviously a lot of hollywood types are liberal), but I find it interesting to understand people and their motivations. I recommend the interviews w/ Joseph Stiglitz, Kristen Wiig and Ed Rollins.
HBR IdeaCast - these are fairly short and often interesting. Often times they're interviewing someone who wrote the most recent Biz Fad book and you get a really good idea of what the whole thing is about before picking it up on your kindle. The episode w/ Carol Dweck about her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success got me to read the book and I was pleased with it.

Blogs/Magazines

The Verge - founded by a bunch of guys who left Engadget, I strongly recommend them for your tech information. Their podcast is way too chatty, so don't subscribe unless you're into a bunch of worthless chatter, but their coverage and editorials are great.
FastCompany - I strongly recommend the magazine, though the blogs seems to be OK. They do, however, have these Co.<Whatever> sub-blogs on their page that can be quite fascinating. If you're at all interested in the latest goings on in the realm of start up/fast moving companies, you should really check this out.
Wired - You should all know Wired by now... Their blog is pretty great these days - check it out if you haven't in a while. (JonJon - check their Game|Life section)
Quick Picks: GigaOm (tech), Joystiq (for Jonny), Lifehacker (you should know this one), Daring Fireball (Apple coverage)

Books
(I'll comment on the nonfiction, but if there is no comment then just check out the Amazon description and know that I highly recommend a read)

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (teaches creative writing at BYU and is extremely popular in fantasy lit. I also recommend The Way of Kings)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Leadership and Self Deception by the Arbinger Institute - this one is a really thought provoking take on our relationships w/ others and how we get things done in the work place. We had a really long discussion about it's merits in a recent peer mentoring group meeting and we kept digging deeper and deeper. Very similar to Bonds that Make us Free (which is Mormony I believe, and we suspect it must have a common author).

Anyway, those are my thoughts for today. I may post again this afternoon w/ another article I saw on Forbes recently, but hopefully this adds some value for you. :)