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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This post is (almost) perfect

April 13, 2008

Read Montague’s book originally titled Why Choose This Book? now titled Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect, is an absolutely fascinating and easily accessible book on the latest in brain science.

One of the things that appealed to me a great deal about this book is that it deals with many of the fundamental aspects of [...]

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