Books I’ve Been Reading

Little Red Book of Selling [Review]

by William | Book Reviews, Reviews

Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles fo sales greatness: How to make sales FOREVER has way too many freaking subheadings to be taken seriously. Just kidding, but there are a totally unreasonable number of books about sales. I’ve...

Outsider in the White House [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Outsider in the White House is an autobiography of Bernie Sander’s career as a politician. Yes, another Bernie Sanders book. I think I’m halfway looking for confirmation that this guy is the real deal, but halfway looking for reasons not to get my hopes...

Fundamentals of Project Management

by William | Book Reviews

The Fundamentals of Project Management by Joseph Heagney is a book about… the fundamentals of project management. Fundamentals is a book very much like A Compact Guide to the Complex World of Project Management. I decided to pick up another project management...

Ask [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Ask : The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy…create a mass of raving fans…and take any business to the next level is a book by sales guru Ryan Lavesque, about a glaringly obvious way to interact with...

Let the Elephants Run [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Let the Elephants Run by David Usher is an inspiration book for artists with a lot of creativity, but lacking that subtle “something-else” known as discipline. There is this crazy idea among creative people that stuff “just happens”....

Agents of the Internet Apocalypse [Review]

by William | Book Reviews, Reviews

Agents of the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone is the meta follow up to Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, Gladstone’s first novel published in 2014, spring-boarding its way out of a cracked.com mini-series called If the Internet Suddenly Disappeared.  In...

The Headshot [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The Headshot by New York headshot photographer Peter Hurley was a pretty delightful blend of practical technique while shooting, and mindset while interacting. When you have been working with portraiture for 10 years, you learn a lot about how to interact with...

The Speech [Review]

by William | Book Reviews, Other, Political, Reviews

The Speech is a transcript from 2010 of Bernie Sanders’ 8 hour attempt to talk the senate out of approving a deal, “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010”, which would give massive tax breaks to the already “fabulously...

Improve Your Conversations [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Improve Your Conversations by Patrick King is a book written to help take some of the basic concepts of improv comedy and use them to have better conversations. Well, “better” is a subjective word. If you have any experience with improv, the stuff written here will be...

Think Like a Freak [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Think Like a Freak is the third and most recent quasi-installation of the Freakonomics series by Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner. Without mincing words, it was great. A page turner, by virtue of Levitt & Dubner’s skill at perspsective shifting, and their ability...