By: Marina Keegan

Scribner; First Edition edition (April 8, 2014)

240 pages

The Opposite Of Loneliness is a collection of college essays of the late Marina Keegan. Her writing is excellent. And this book brims with the possibilities of what might have been had she stayed with us a little longer. I can almost see someone scrolling through her last piece in The New Yorker over an early morning cup of coffee.

Two of my favorite quotes:

We’re so young. We’re so young.  We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time.

Do you want to leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything… And I cry because everything is so beautiful and short.

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By: Nick Bilton

Portfolio; Reprint edition (September 30, 2014)
320 pages

Hatching Twitter is how it all began. I mean, I LOVE Twitter. Who knows what the future brings, but right now Twitter is my go-to social media platform. Sure, there is a lot of noise on Twitter, but there is also no better place to get noticed, and to communicate with the masses. People even leave email off their bylines these days, simply preferring to say: “Find me on Twitter.” But read at your own risk. You will never look at the founders the same way.

One of my favorite quotes:

On Sunday mornings, the two daydreamers go on an adventure together, always taking the train through San Francisco to a museum, a park, or a bookstore.

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