Category: Book Reviews

  • Tribes by Seth Godin: Which Tribe Do You Lead?

    Tribes by Seth Godin: Which Tribe Do You Lead?

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    Seth Godin is the renowned author of books like Purple Cow and Linchpin and a myriad of other familiar books around marketing and being awesome at your work. Tribes is his book about what it takes to get leverage with your idea. That leverage comes from leading a Tribe and the leverage that leadership brings.…

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  • Learn to Triumph Over Trials: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

    Learn to Triumph Over Trials: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

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    Our actions may be impeded…but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. – Marcus Aurelius from The Obstacle is the Way Right in the preface of The Obstacle is the Way author Ryan…

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  • Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport

    Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport

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    Sure, Slack is great. So is Twitter, and Facebook. I loved it when OSX added iMessage as a core part of their operating system, giving us the ability to send and receive messages. With all of these things added to my life at no point did I realize how lean I was slicing my time.…

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  • Fighting Resistance and Listening to your Muse: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

    Fighting Resistance and Listening to your Muse: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

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    The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is an oft-cited book for any ‘artist’ to read. While Pressfield mainly talks about a more typical artist in the book (painter, sculptor, writer…) I extend this to anyone doing creative work. Even those writing code. In The War of Art, Pressfield attempts to address the invisible force…

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  • You already have Enough: A look at contentedness with Patrick Rhone author of Enough

    You already have Enough: A look at contentedness with Patrick Rhone author of Enough

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    Are you content? I don’t just mean with your earnings or family or relationships, but I mean with everything? Do you feel you’re ‘famous’ enough? Are you happy with the number of pants and shirts you own? Alternatively, are you just waiting for the next released T-shirt from whatever your favourite band is? Are you…

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  • Is Happiness an Advantage? Looking at The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

    Is Happiness an Advantage? Looking at The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

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    We all know people who are generally happy and others who are generally unhappy. Some people just seem wired to be one or the other. The happy ones remain so, despite the tough world that sometimes wages around them, while the unhappy ones could win the lottery and be upset that they had to spend…

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  • Reviewing the Art of Work by Jeff Goins

    Reviewing the Art of Work by Jeff Goins

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    Do you have a calling? Maybe ‘calling’ is too heavy a word and you can’t relate to it. Do you have a purpose? Or maybe a better question is, do you know your purpose? If you’re not sure yet then do you have any idea how to find it — or are you simply adrift…

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  • Reviewing Will it Fly by Pat Flynn

    Reviewing Will it Fly by Pat Flynn

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    We’ve all got ideas. Occasionally we even think we have a good idea. However, it’s rare that any of us actually take the time to execute on an idea. Good ideas are common, but those who are willing to take action and execute those ideas are far more rare. – Will it Fly One of…

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  • Review: The Front Nine by Mike Vardy

    Review: The Front Nine by Mike Vardy

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    Today I’d like to offer you my review of The Front Nine by Mike Vardy. In this book, Vardy uses the game of golf as an analogy to illustrate how we approach and launch projects (or start a new year) in business. His point is that we don’t have to begin a ‘new year’ on January 1st,…

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  • Review: Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer

    Review: Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer

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    I recently finished reading Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer by Liam Veitch. The author is a web developer who grew his ‘doing okay’ freelance business into a million-dollar operation. In the book, Veitch begins with a story of his freelance failure which turns in to a silver-lining corporate job where he learns how to actually…

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