Review: The Perfect Thing (2)
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For as much as designers like to use the iPod as an example, seven years after its launch, we’re still as a group mostly ignorant of how it was made. There is still a mystique around it. Enter The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Steven Levy. I want to call it a lost classic, except that it’s only been out about two years or so. But I seldom hear ...
AdTech, AdGate and Blue Collar Blogging (1)
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Returning in the plane from the AdTech conference in Shanghai I remarked to a colleague that I thought blogger, author and social media icon Shel Israel to be a wonderful writer. My associate replied with “As good as you?” I was struck dumb, unable to answer as I wasn’t sure whether it was meant to be a compliment or was a ping to test the depth of my self actualization. I didn’t answer immediately and ...
Personal Branding is Your Secret Weapon in the Battle for Jobs (1)
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Today, I spoke with Liz Goodgold, who is a long time branding expert, speaker, author and consultant. Liz provides a great endorsement for the fine art of personal branding and she also has great ideas around how entrepreneurs can market themselves, as well as how people can become more visible as a corporate employee. This post will prove useful to just about anyone engaged in a job hunt or trying to keep their current job ...
Review: Bottomfeeder: How To Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (1)
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American and Canadian covers Taras Grescoe is the ultimate ecotarian; he stopped eating meat a decade ago out of concerns about growth hormones, factory farms etc in a time when organic happy meat was expensive and hard to find. But he loves seafood, with its thousands of varieties, and is convinced that the Omega 3 oils are critical to our brain development and maintenance. He writes in the introduction: I began writing this book knowing ...
Part II: Is your sales team making the numbers? (1)
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On Monday, I posted the first part of my interview with the authors of the Making the Number. As I said earlier, this book can really shake up the sales organization - but in the process, take it to new heights. I recommend it to any business owner or sales executive who is serious about doing just that. Here's Part II of my interview with the authors: 1. How does sales benchmarking help predict sales ...
Gen-Y Brands Will Hold the Recruiting Power Very Soon! (2)
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Today, I spoke with Tamara J. Erickson, who completely made my day. She’s a generational expert and her latest book is on Gen-Y. The coolest thing I got out of this interview is the fact that the amount of jobs in our economy will be greater than the amount of Gen-Y’ers to fill positions, even though there are 75 million of us. This will allow us to have more recruiting power and as a result, ...
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers (1)
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New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: George Packer on The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French: "'The World Is What It Is' ... is fully worthy of its subject, with all the dramatic pacing, the insight and the pathos of a first-rate novel. It is a magnificent tribute to the painful and unlikely struggle by which the grandson of indentured Indian workers, born in the small ...
Book Review - Twilight (1)
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Twilight is a phenomenon; or that is what I hear. I began to receive emails about it a short time ago and the requests for a review have increased as the release of the Twilight movie has approached. Strangely, I get more requests to review teenage fiction than any other genre. I usually reply with an apologetic email saying that I do not review such titles. But because of the popularity of this series I ...
Public Speaking Books: Six Minutes Reader Recommendations (1)
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Last week, we asked readers to recommend their favorite books in public speaking, presentation skills, or related fields. Thank you! Six Minutes readers answered the call with 16 book recommendations. Some books have been reviewed on Six Minutes. Some are on my wish list. And some were brand new to me. How about you? Which of these appeal to you? Have a comment to share? Recommended Communication, Speechwriting, and Public Speaking Books You’ve Got to ...
Book Review: A History of Interest Rates (1)
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This book is big, very big at ~700 pages. It is a testimony to the idea that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The book is arranged chronologically, and geographically within each time period. Time is spent on each are roughly in proportion to the amount of unique data that we have from each era. Thus, the recent past gets more pages per year. Roughly one-quarter of the book goes from ancient times ...
Chocolate Chipotle Brownies (2)
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When I was a kid my mom would often put my brother and I to work in the kitchen. Under supervision we’d scramble eggs for breakfast, cook spaghetti for dinner, or, if we were particularly lucky, we’d make dessert. My brother’s speciality was sugar cookies. My mother would buy those refrigerated logs of Pillsbury cookie dough at the market, then he’d slice them up and decorate each doughy circle with red and green sugar crystals. ...
Book Review: The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You’ll Ever Need (1)
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I’m taking a brief break from “all crisis, all the time” writing. I’m backlogged on book reviews, and it is time to write some. When I get a book on asset allocation, I suck in my gut and say, “Oh no, not another book that falls into the common traps of only relying on past history, and doesn’t consider structural factors….” I was surprised this time, and I have a book on asset allocation that ...
For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis (1)
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To one or two generations — those that emotionally, socially and philosophically came of age between the late 1960s and early 1980s — of not just designers but civilians of all kinds, the album covers of that era, not to mention the music of course, played a monumental role in their cultural and visual literacy, and no album covers were as influential as those created by Hipgnosis. I say created much on purpose, because designed ...
Boom Bench Looks, Functions Like Giant Ghetto Blaster (1)
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At first glance, it may seem like a normal bench, but upon closer inspection you'll realize that it's a working boom box that lets you "connect your player to the amplifier and take control." Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery. Now you can play your music with 95 dB high quality sound. A Bass Shaker in the seat transforms the deep sounds into vibrations that enhance the physical sensation of ...
Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (1)
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Despite a panning review in the New York Times and scoffs from Joel Spolsky, I really enjoyed Outliers: The Story of Success by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell, who is also the author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. The premise of the book is this: the circumstances that make people successful have as much to do with culture, when you ...
Francis Chan Kicked My Butt! (4)
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I don’t know if you have read “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan yet…but it’s AWESOME. I have had the privilege of hearing Francis speak and the dude is ON FIRE. Here are some quotes that stuck out to me… “His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words cannot contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?” (DANG!!!) “Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes ...
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This book has been on my reading list for a couple of months. Sounds like it would be a great followup to the Practical Atheist series.
Thinking About Self-Publishing? Read This Book (1)
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The Ethics of Book Reviews, Part 1 (1)
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I know, I know. This has been discussed ad naseum recently (especially with the recent BTT!). But for the most part I kept quiet during many of the discussions to see what people had to say. And I swear that I’ve had a post all ready to go that I had to change the name to The Ethics of Book Reviews, Part 2, because I think this part of the post, which I was going ...
Become a Career Renegade Instead of Being Depressed at Work (2)
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Today, I spoke with Jonathan Fields, who is an author, blogger and much more. He just launched his new blog based on his “Career Renegade” book today, in addition to an incredible new eBook called “The Fire Fly Manifesto.” The purpose of this interview is to inspire you to start doing work you love, instead of being part of the status quo, dreading each day of work. We’re not saying to quit your job, but ...
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I first heard about The Well Fed Self-Publisher when Yvonne Russell wrote about it one weekend at the Writers’ Cafe. When she told me about not just the book but the way the author Peter Bowerman had connected with her - modelling all the behaviours he talks about in his book - I knew it had to get to the top of my Amazon wish list. Yvonne highlighted the book to me because she knew ...Shared by Jon (13)Contribute comment
