Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | September 3, 2019

By Porchlight

Blog / News & Opinion

2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards call for entries is now open

By Blyth Meier

Any business book published in the U.S. within the year 2020 is eligible and submissions to the awards are free.

Blog / Book Giveaways

Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different

By Porchlight

An unconventional business book for the rebels and misfits—the Rare Breeds—who don't fit the traditional mold.

Blog / Excerpts

Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

By Porchlight

Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Scott H. Young offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly.

Blog / Editor's Choice

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Leah Price's book explores the history of books and our relationship to them, explaining how the books we read have always changed and evolved as we do.

Blog / ChangeThis

Distracted: A Manual for Living a Creative, Productive, and Happy Life In the Digital Age

By Brian Solis

“Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. It’s time to reclaim our lives. It’s time to take control.”

Blog / News & Opinion

2019 Porchlight Business Book Awards call for entries is now open

By Blyth Meier

Any business book published in the U.S. within the year 2019 is eligible and submissions to the awards are free.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | August 27, 2019

By Porchlight

Five books being published this week that we're excited are entering the marketplace of ideas.

Blog / Book Giveaways

The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

By Porchlight

"For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of stories—mysteries—that doctors and research cannot explain. Patients who are biologically healthy, but feel ill. Patients who are biologically ill, but feel healthy. What if these health mysteries could teach us something about what really makes us sick—and how to be healthy?"

Blog / ChangeThis

The ChangeThis Manifesto

By Porchlight

"Sometimes it seems as though our disagreements over everything–from politics to business to the designated hitter rule–are more serious and more divisive than ever before. People are making emotional, knee-jerk decisions, then standing by them, sometimes fighting to the death to defend their position. And yet, weʼre optimists."