How to pick books by content & reviews

March 1, 2009

Ok, so I first was given this book by my dad when I was a 17 or so. If only I hadn’t read the cover of the book at that point, I would have saved myself tons of heartache over the years. Instead, I read the title, and thought to myself, “I don’t want any [...]

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Reading on Speed… Reading

February 15, 2009

For someone like me who is incredibly busy knowledge worker, I can think of no better productivity tool that to read faster. I must confess I took my first encounter with speed reading was in high school in a class devoted to study skills. I actually learned quite a bit in that class including [...]

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Making a list, checking it weekly, updating it constantly

December 3, 2008

There are books that have changed my life to be certain, but I’m not sure that there is a more important book that I can recommend to you than this one.  I am probably two orders of magnitude (100x) less stressed than I was before I read this book.  I am probably one order of [...]

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Chasm – fun word of the day

November 21, 2008

So I was talking with my colleague Jamon Moore at I-many the other day, and he was asking me if I had read anything by Geoffrey Moore (no relation, or so Jamon claims).  I had told him the God’s honest truth, which was I’d never heard of him.  Looking back, I’m not sure how this [...]

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Can I get another knapkin [sic]?

October 12, 2008

So, I was in the bookstore and I picked up this book along with Presentation Zen, and wouldn’t you know it, shortly afterwards I see a post on the Presentation Zen blog about this book.  Undeterred by being scooped by Garr Reynolds on two of the books I’ve read lately, I decided to press on [...]

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The Definitive Post On Body Language…

July 12, 2008

So, I was in this small local bookstore in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood, and I came across The Definitive Book on Body Language by Babara and Alan Pease, and was intrigued as I have always been interested in body language. So, I’ve picked it up in fits and starts, and was finally able to [...]

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Siesta Rules!

July 1, 2008

Ok, I promise that my next post will not include a reference to Clay, but again he recommended an excellent book, and again I took him up on it. And in a further reference to my last post, I’ve already been beaten to the punch in terms of reviewing this book, by the author of [...]

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As God is my witness, I’ll never give a boring presentation again

June 23, 2008

Clay (two posts in a row for him) dropped on me that I should check out this blog called Presentation Zen. Well I went into my bookstore about a month ago and picked up this great book. Then I read the book in about a day (maybe two). Its obviously a pretty quick read. [...]

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Not all content is created equal

May 20, 2008

“If you follow only one link from this blog in your life … this is the one to choose.”— Steven Levitt
Yeah, I’ll second that one, though I’m guessing I won’t be generating nearly the volume of Steven Levitt.
For those of you who haven’t caught on yet, I’m a big fan of learning new things. This [...]

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My name is Paul and I like to do drawrings

May 10, 2008

I think I like the subtitle (Getting the design right and the right design) better than the title (Sketching User Experiences – although if someone had written a book of my work it would probably be called Sketchy User Experiences) of this call to arms by Bill Buxton. As someone who had their favorite moment [...]

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