Book Review Outliers Outliers investigates some of the factors allowing people to outperform (or underperform) their peers. What makes them stand out from the crowd?
Book Review Atomic Habits Book review of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones, by James Clear.
Book Review The 12 Week Year for Writers I have fallen out of the habit of writing every day. To kick-start the habit, I read this book and it has given me the push to get writing daily.
Book Review Review: The Art of Invisibility Kevin Mitnick’s book details how you can remain totally invisible online. Even if that is not for you, it has many privacy tips you should know about.
Book Review Review: Quiet Are you an introvert or extrovert? Do you have the same personality as your partner and does this matter? How can you best work with people of the opposite type?
Book Review Review: The Year Without Pants A year in the life of Scott Berkun as he rejoined the workforce in a new type of company; one where most interactions between staff occur on-line.
Book Review Review: The 12 Week Year Imagine you could condense a year of focused activity into just twelve weeks. What you could achieve if you strung several such 12-week blocks together?
Book Review The Power of a Good Night Sleep Bad night of sleep? The consequences could be worse than simply being a little groggy. Similarly the benefits of getting enough quality sleep are limitless.
Book Review The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham’s masterpiece, The Intelligent Investor, is a great starting point for anyone wishing to begin investing in the stock or bond markets.
Book Review Hackers Hackers is the book that brought the term to a wider audience. It signifies the love of playing with a thing, making it better and passing the knowledge on.
Book Review Review: Unstoppable Anxiety can be the curse of budding entrepreneurs. This book charts the story of Craig Ballantyne through a crippling anxiety attack.
Book Review Review: The Goal Having read both the Phoenix Project and The Dev Ops Handbook, which both reference The Goal, I felt I had to read the book that was the inspiration.
Book Review Review: The One Thing Learn how to break down your goal so that the first step is clear by reading The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results.
Book Review Essentialism - Greg McKeown After reading this book you will understand the importance of essentialism, have the ability to explore and understand what is most important to you, removing everything else, and keep non-essential things out of your life permanently.
Book Review Review: The Golden Ticket What problems cause even the most powerful computers difficulty? When should we settle for a best effort, using a heuristic algorithm rather than the absolute best result? How is all this worth one million dollars?
Book Review Review: Algorithms to Live By Can problems that appear throughout computer science, many of which are well understood and solved help us in our daily lives? This book demontrates that this is defnitely so.
Book Review Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport This book recommends cultivating the practice and skill of Deep Work; being able to concentrate absolutely and without distraction on the task, to achieve valuable and consistent results that most people cannot reach due to their difficulty.