Category: Book Reviews
What is a Company of One?
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One of the relentless pursuits of so many businesses is growth. The freelancer wants to have a small agency. The agency wants to be big enough to get huge clients. The huge agency looks toward government contracts and multiple locations in the “vibrant” cities. What many of these businesses fail to realize is that growth…
Is It Better to Specialize or Go for Range?
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The story much of the world tells us is that we need to get a head start at everything if we want to be successful. If you want to be a musician, better start practicing shortly after you’re out of diapers. Want to be succeed at sports, if you haven’t started deliberate practice to get…
The Choices Society Makes Discounts Women
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While 50% of the world population may be female, the world discounts so much of the benefit that comes from that half of our population. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez aims to show us how that bias is harming not just women, but society in general. Early on Perez states that this bias comes…
Looking at Unschooling With Kerry McDonald
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> Too often, in everyday language, we equate education with _schooling_. We ask someone “How much education have you had?” and we expect them to tell us about the number of years they spent in school or their highest diploma. IX I was never all that into high school, which I don’t think is odd.…
Getting to the Tipping Point With Malcolm Gladwell
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While I had listened to [Tipping Point](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316346624/?tag=strugwithfait-20), by Malcolm Gladwell a bunch of times, this was my first read through it. If you’re interested in what it takes to make an idea spread, without all the deep science and chart that we found in [Connected](https://curtismchale.ca/2018/05/17/connected-how-a-social-network-works-in-everything-from-stds-to-friendship/), then Tipping Point is a good start. Gladwell does a…
The Revenge of Analog a Book Review
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While my job is heavily involved in computers and technology, I love analogue things. I’ve even written a book about my own analogue productivity methods because I think they bring a more thoughtful approach to work than digital tools. To say I was interested in The Revenge of Analog by David Sax, was an understatement.…
How Hard Is It to Be a Millenial?
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It’s an oft-quoted trope to say that Millenials are lazy and they want everything even when they’re just starting out and have built no real experience behind their work. Tristan Harris is here to show the lie in much of that statement with his book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials.…
2019 Reading So Far – What Mattered
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I saw Jamie Todd Rubin give a short update on what he read this year so far and I realized that it’s about time for me to share some of my favourites too. Yup most of these are going to be Amazon links and I get about .0000001 cent if you purchase, well maybe a…
How Introverts Live With the Extrovert Ideal
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There is a difference between being introverted and being shy according to Susan Cain, author of Quiet. Shy people are afraid of speaking up and introverts feel overstimulated and need downtime[^Page 13]. There’s an even bigger distinction between extroverts and introverts and it’s not just how they prefer to spend their time. The big difference…
Why Do We Assume It Has to Be Crazy at Work?
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The title of this post is the central question that Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson are trying to answer in their book It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work. Here is the two primary reasons they think that work has gotten so crazy. There are two primary reasons: (1) The workday is being…
