Way back in university days, when I was a Lit major, I used to be very into the philosophy and criticism of literature. And like the true nerd I’ve always been, I used to read and critique essays and theories on literature. In fact, I had planned to be a lit professor and that was…
First of all, to everyone who suggested I read this book… you are the best. Thank you so much for this. I absolutely would not have read another productivity book for the rest of my life if there hadn’t been five different people who reached out to me and asked if I’d read this. In…
Since we’ve been expanding our content, I’ve got all these “make this list and that list” sticky notes in my Sticky Note Forest, so let’s get this one out first, since I think it’s pretty important. I have a list of nonfiction books I like to recommend for new authors. It covers the gamut of…
If you’ve taken Write Better-Faster, you know that I recommend this book heartily to people who need to learn tools for communicating when the stakes are high. Just in general, I think this book can help everyone, but when I looked back through the archives, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t done a non-fiction-book-review on this one,…
Monthly nonfiction book review time! If you haven’t read these before and want to, click on “Book Thoughts” below. This month, we had a request for Mark Manson’s “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***.” Let me first say, I’m not a person who generally cares about swearing, other than to make sure to…
Once a month, I like to give a nonfiction review of a book, and if you click on the “Book Thoughts” tag below (if you’re new), you can see all the previous posts I’ve done in this vein. This month, I finished a book that I started last fall called “Ultralearning” by Scott Young. This…
Once a month, I like to give a nonfiction review of a book, and if you click on the “Book Thoughts” tag below (if you’re new), you can see all the previous posts I’ve done in this vein. This month, I’m re-reading a book that some of you will recognize from the reading list for…
Those of you who have been around the blog for a while know that I have read every Ryan Holiday book on the planet. Except this one. And I think there’s a reason I’ve been putting off reading this one. (For instance, as I’m writing this, I’m watching Project Runway and typing and looking over…
I have literally lost count of the number of times I’ve re-read this book. The very first time I read it, I thought… how is it possible that SO MUCH COMMON SENSE landed in one book at one time. And I immediately re-read it. There’s a lot of work being done in resilience right now…
I’ve been reading the book “When” by Daniel Pink, and it has been blowing my mind a little bit. I’m mostly surprised that more people aren’t talking about this book. The essential premise is that the most often-ignored element of the “who-what-when-where-how” of how we approach things like decision-making, will-power, and excellence, is the “when”.…