Tag: Book
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How to See Identity
Have you ever seen identity? Do you want to know how? I know some people are looking for identity or what to find their identity. If you are one of those – please take a look at this post or this post or this post as they will help you find it. But…
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The Value of Books
I read a kindle single by Jeff Jarvis entitled Gutenberg the Geek. I’ll write a blog post with a review of the book some other time, but I wanted to focus on one idea in this post. Before Gutenberg created his printing press, there were books. They were quite expensive. You…
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There Isn’t a Book for What You Want to Do
I think it’s one of my false fixed ideas – that there is a book out there for what it is that you want to do. When I first became a professor, I wanted to find a book to teach me how to do that. I bought a few books,…
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Always Act With Dignity
dig·ni·ty n. pl. dig·ni·ties 1. The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect. 2. Inherent nobility and worth Always act with dignity, not matter what. That’s a line from the book that I’m reading. It’s up to you to determine whether you deserve it or not. You…
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Articulate Latent Needs
That is the line that jumped out to me as I was reading my latest book – Change by design by Tim Brown. I’m only in chapter 2 – converting need into demand. He says that the tools of conventional market research might help with incremental improvements, but that the…
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Culture of Skimmers
I live in a culture of skimmers. Not only do we have ADHD, but we are not very good at deep reading. We can Google anything. We can search online for the main idea of a book – click a link – and get all the main ideas of the…
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The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
I just finished The Shallows. What the internet is doing to our brains. by Nicholas Carr. It was a great book. Nicholas describes the impact that the internet has on the brain. He explains the brain, technology, a little bit of neuroscience, a great history of the development of technology…
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The Soul of a Book
Is a book still a book if it’s on a Kindle. I mean, we talk about buying books for your Kindle, but do you need the physical properties of a the book; the cover, the words, the pages, the margins, the intro and table of contents, the glossary. Is a…
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Now You Can Judge a Book By It’s Cover
I checked the etymology of that word and according to wikipedia.org – it was first used in 1946. Check out the article here. My guess is that the books of the 1940’s look differently than they do today. Today, there is a ton of time spent on the cover of…
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Fruit Takes Time
It’s such a simple idea, but fruit takes time. I know that it’s easy for me to talk about the fruit of my labor, but fruit takes time. There’s no such thing as instant fruit. True fruit – takes time to create and then grow. I was reading Ed’s book…
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Want a Free Book
There’s actually a ton of them available. You just have to know where to go. I’ll share one with you. It’s a Seth Godin book. I believe it was his second one. You can download the whole thing for free – in pdf form. Just click here and download it.…
