Tag: books
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Book: Essentialism
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Amazon) is about what you don’t do. It’s about accepting the reality that you can’t be great at everything, ruthlessly prioritising, and saying no. I found it a useful book to follow Better Than Before with, because it dived into the thing Better than Before made me think about most: what was…
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Book: Better than Before
I’ve been reading Gretchen Rubin‘s blog for a long time, including (I think) the whole time she was writing this book, so wasn’t sure how much I would get from reading Better than Before. A lot of the ideas in it I’d seen in her blog, but actually having it all in one place at one time…
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Book: Data Driven
Data Driven is about how to fit Data Science into your company. It’s strategic rather than tactical. Has a brief overview of the history of Data Science, including facts like Walmart was the first company to embrace data science starting in the 80s. One of the most interesting aspects I found was stories from turning…
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Book: Just Fucking Ship
In this spirit of “just fucking ship” Just Fucking Ship, the book, was written in 24 hours (although it has been edited and updated since then). There’s a dinner party metaphor worked throughout which I didn’t connect with because I don’t cook. But essentially it’s about: break things down, work backwards, and don’t make your…
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Book – APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
The 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
Of 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
I’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
I 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
As 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…