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This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin
4.0
Classic Seth, deceptively simple but requiring you to go away and think deeply about how you can cause interest and engagement in your work to spread.
Read it, ponder on it, deconstruct the ideas with others.
Read it, ponder on it, deconstruct the ideas with others.
A Traveller's Life by Eric Newby
3.0
There were parts of this book that made me laugh outloud yet overall I found it a slog to get through.
I enjoyed Love and War in the Apennines so I like Newby but,although I love travel writing, I admit that short stories are not my favourite format. And, somehow the writing felt very dated although I don't usually find that to be the case with books written in the past...Perhaps it is too recent to feel truly historical yet too distant to feel contemporary?
Still, the premise was an interesting one: to look at travel in all its manifestations and throughout a lifetime. Maybe really a book for dipping into occasionally.
I enjoyed Love and War in the Apennines so I like Newby but,although I love travel writing, I admit that short stories are not my favourite format. And, somehow the writing felt very dated although I don't usually find that to be the case with books written in the past...Perhaps it is too recent to feel truly historical yet too distant to feel contemporary?
Still, the premise was an interesting one: to look at travel in all its manifestations and throughout a lifetime. Maybe really a book for dipping into occasionally.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
3.0
Not the kind of book I'd normally read, but I was on the sofa knocked out by a cold. It hummed along. An easy read but well written.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins
4.0
I skim-read this book because as a solopreneur big chunks aren't relevant to me. The book was published in 2001 so it's dated in terms of the companies it mentions. Despite this, it's fundamental concepts are sound and I learned a LOT about refining my vision for my work and not getting distracted by tactics which promise some sort of instant success but aren't aligned with my long-term vision. Understanding the 'hedgehog concept' feels like it's going to be one of those pivotal before-and-after-moments!
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
4.0
This is one of those books that just meanders. It's very much a stream-of-consciousness kind of writing but with a definite theme.
It talks about why sometimes we need to get lost in life, in order to discover the things that we need to discover... Different ways of getting lost - physically, mentally and psychologically. And what it is to wander.
It talks about why sometimes we need to get lost in life, in order to discover the things that we need to discover... Different ways of getting lost - physically, mentally and psychologically. And what it is to wander.