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Can You Hear What David Allen Is Saying?
By Porchlight
LifeClever has a list of 17 different interviews with Getting Things Done guru David Allen. You'll find 247 minutes of audio and over 21,000 words of text in the links provided—useful for novice and expert alike.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Disease: A Good Thing?
By Porchlight
In the Big Think genre, I am recommending people pick up Survival of The Sickest by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince. Moalem is a evolutionary biologist and he has some interesting things to say about diseases. He says many of the things that afflict us now are the same things that protected us in the past.
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Blog / News & Opinion
John C. Bogle is the Man
By Porchlight
While this blog rarely covers personal finance books, I think that any time Jack Bogle puts pen to paper folks should take notice. His new book, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, is another dose of refreshing common sense from the guy who created index funds as we know them today. Not to spoil anything, but there’s simply no great secrets revealed in this book.
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links for 2007-03-20
By Porchlight
Wired 15. 03: Interview with the author of I Am a Strange Loop "The work was the inimitable Gödel, Escher, Bach, and its creator, Douglas Hofstadter, stunned the world with his zany, in-depth, and utterly brilliant investigation of self-reference in art and mathematics. .
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Blog / News & Opinion
You Have 10 Pages To Convince Me
By Porchlight
We tell authors and publishers all the time about the importance of the first 10 pages of a book. For Jack and I, the author has about three pages to catch our attention. If not, we are on to the next book.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Five Best from Ken Roman, Former Advertising Executive
By Porchlight
Saturday's Wall Street Journal had a list of the five blue-chip business management books. The list was compiled by Ken Roman, a former advertising executive. I think it is one of the best lists I have seen.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-03-17
By Porchlight
Fast Company | Branding with online dating services by Dan and Chip Heath "Is it fair to say that finding a soul mate is pretty important? If so, online dating sites should be full of sparkling bon mots, as people try to woo prospects. As a dater on Match.
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links for 2007-03-16
By Porchlight
AdAge >> Overthink This: Your World Just Came Out in Hardcover "The book I've been recommending to everyone lately is a brilliant first novel titled "Then We Came to the End" by a young New York writer named Joshua Ferris.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Flower Confidential
By Porchlight
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 280 Pages, $23. 95 Hardcover, February 2007, 9781565124387 I have always liked flowers. I spend a lot of time in my gardens on my infrequent days off and my parents ran a small-town greenhouse/florist operation for a short time.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-03-15
By Porchlight
The Cubicle Survival Guide >> The Wall Street Journal | The Best Way to Labor Away in Our Little Boxes The latest entry in the growing corpus of workplace-whacking is "The Cubicle Survival Guide: Keeping Your Cool in the Least Hospitable Environment on Earth," by first-time author and Web-site production coordinator James F. Thompson. (tags: businessbooks humor general_business) Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends >> The Wall Street Journal | Twain's Roughing It His slim volume is less a biography than a sketch of the writer's entrepreneurial and investing life.
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