Books
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Book – APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
→: Book – APE: Author, Publisher, EntrepreneurThe main thing I got from APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book (Amazon) was that writing a book was much more possible than I had thought. This was mainly the “publisher” section which breaks down how to get your work into people’s hands, what self publishing entails, and what the options are. I don’t remember…
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Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
→: Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real LifeOf course I had heard the song “Sunscreen” and thought that it was advice from Baz Luhrmann himself, but I came across this book – Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life – by Mary Schmich. Who it turns out was the author. It opened explaining what happened, and how she was erased from her creation and how…
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Book: Hot Seat
→: Book: Hot SeatI’ve been talking to Dan online for a while now, mostly about women in tech stuff, and I have frequently thought that he (being a 4x startup CEO, and having made this really cool game) is the kind of person who I could get a lot of useful advice from… if I knew what to…
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Book: Confessions of a Public Speaker
→: Book: Confessions of a Public SpeakerI kept meaning to buy Confessions of a Public Speaker (Amazon) because I read his blog, and I finally got around to it. Part of the reason I was slow to buy it was because I think I ingest all the speaking advice I can already. Turns out, this book is mostly not advice –…
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Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels
→: Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating PanelsAs a long time reader of The Eloquent Woman blog, of course I bought Denise’s book, The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels (Amazon) almost as soon as it came out, and only waited a couple of weeks to read it! I’m not a fan of panels because so often they are bad, so it’s great to…
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Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night
→: Book: How to Sleep Well Every NightMy abiding memory of my teenage years is being sleep-deprived and exhausted. Being awake at 4am. Eventually, age 22, I trained myself to sleep with sleeping pills and ever since I’ve been mostly free of insomnia. It’s come with certain rituals though. When I travel, I get to be free of those rituals and do…
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Book: Thinking in Systems
→: Book: Thinking in SystemsI found Thinking in Systems (Amazon) via @jessitron’s excellent post Systems Thinking about WIT. I had been aware of some of the concepts of systems thinking for a while, but it was great to have a book that really explained it. I really enjoyed it. It articulated things that I intuitively understood but couldn’t explain, but also…
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Book: How to Invest Your Time Like Money
→: Book: How to Invest Your Time Like MoneyOne of the things I really liked about How to Invest Your Time Like Money (Amazon) is how short it was. There are plenty of lengthy books written about time management, I know I’ve read a bunch of them, and some of them have been very helpful. This book though, is short and strategic. Two key…
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Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation
→: Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generationIn the way of a lot of books that are a collection of blog posts, Women in IT (Amazon) is a bit disjointed and the writing varies. It’s also very promoting of the BCS which is not an organisation that I am involved with – I had to take a course at uni for accreditation…