Just finished The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine . I was very surprised at how much I liked this book and how good it was. I can't remember who recommended it or why I picked it up because it's not the sort of thing I would have normally read. I particularly enjoyed the section about the teenage male...
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Another audio book finished: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink . Excellent book! If you've read any of the books mentioned in previous blog posts you will notice that you've already heard many of the examples that he uses. He quotes experiments done by Dan Ariely in Predictably...
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Recently finished listening to the audio version of You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith . There was nothing in this book that I could disagree with. It all made perfect sense. The main takeaway that the book kept on hinting at was to look around you and take note of who impresses...
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Just finished doing the test and reading the book for Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath . This is an interesting "book" to read from the point of view that the book is only "usable" by one person. You cannot gift the book after you've read it. The book starts off with 30 pages of introduction...
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I recently finished reading Linchpin by Seth Godin . This is a great read and packed with insight. The full title is Linchpin - Are you Indispensable? I found the book from reading Seth's blog which I try and read daily but usually catch-up with it on weekends. The crux of the book is about how some...
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Just been reading Even Faster Web Sites . I had never heard of comet before I read this but it makes sense and I'm looking forward to trying it. Comet is a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it. I was a little bit surprised...
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I've just finished reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely . This is a great book that applies to everyone and should be required reading before you leave school. Everyone is guilty of being irrational in their decisions and some of us continue to do it everyday even though we know that it's stupid...
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