Books
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Book: 4 Hour Body
→: Book: 4 Hour BodyI have mixed feelings about Tim Ferriss. I read 4 Hour Work Week, and now 4 Hour Body (both Amazon), and it’s like, yes, good point, but it’s hard for me to imagine having that much control over my time. Penelope Trunk wrote something interesting, about how he works insanely hard but defines it all…
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Book: A Short Guide To A Happy Life
→: Book: A Short Guide To A Happy LifeI like Anna Quindlen’s work, it’s beautiful and thoughtful, poetic without being overly flowery. A Short Guide To a Happy Life is from a commencement speech she never gave because it was cancelled by protesters, beautifully illustrated with pictures. It’s short, because really it contains a very simple message: be more than your job, have more in…
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Thoughts on Being Productive
→: Thoughts on Being ProductiveI’ve been reading Manage Your Day to Day (Amazon), which is a nice book on people’s personal approaches to productivity. It’s reminded me of some things, and given me some things to reflect on. I used to be really into productivity, but now I have some things that I keep in mind, and that works…
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Book: The Richer Sex
→: Book: The Richer SexFor women who have complained about modern dating and men being intimidated by the success of women… The Richer Sex is the book to read. Personally I’d kind of thought the problem was dating engineers (common complaint amongst my female peers – how many of them have stay at home wives and the effect that…
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Book: Principle Centered Leadership
→: Book: Principle Centered LeadershipI think Principle Centered Leadership (Amazon) was the most annoying, preachy, and useless book I have ever read. Really disappointing as I got a lot out of 7 Habits (Amazon) and thought reading this would similar enough to refresh my thinking, but also something new. Actually I hated it so much, I may never manage to read…
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Book: I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
→: Book: I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About AlanI actually had no idea who Alan Partridge was, and just bought the book in an effort to expand my horizons – I think after Stephen Fry tweeted about it (cannot find tweet, I could well be wrong). As a result, the reading was a bit weird at first – the guy seemed to have…
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Book: The Male Factor
→: Book: The Male FactorThis book – The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace (Amazon) has to be one of the most depressing books I have ever read. Sometimes, surrounded by men, I think that I don’t understand the rules of the game that is on. Having read this book, and had…
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Book: The Power of Habit
→: Book: The Power of HabitThe book The Power of Habit (Amazon) is fascinating. All about how we create habits, how we change habits, and how much of our life is driven by habits. It’s full of fascinating stories that illustrate the points, like the man who lost the ability to create memories… but who could still create habits. Or the…
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Book: The Four Agreements
→: Book: The Four AgreementsThis book was a recommendation, and I see what people would get out of it, although personally I really disliked it. I thought the claims it made were too grandiose, and that they were overstated in a way that was at times offensive – when it talks about the “power of the word” and says…