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Book Review: The Business Writer’s Handbook

Bidnes Cummunication is sooo impotent, it is literally won of the most impotent tings eye cann commiserate to you! Your judged ever day by you’re writin & oral communications. Literally. “It is sooo important that that I cant overemphasize it enuf”. The interwebs havent improoved this stuff any; and dont git me goin on twutter!!! […]

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Book Review: Spillover

This book was loaned to me by a friend who is a microbiologist at the UW Medical School. He marked three or four chapters for me to read but it was so interesting I read the whole thing. The subtitle is Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic and it serves as interesting background on […]

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Book Review: Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell is one of the most popular authors in the world. His previous titles include: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath. Talking to Strangers is his first book in six years. The gap is mostly because he commands six-figure speaking fees and has gotten heavily involved in […]

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Book Review: This Time is Different

This Time is Different, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, is subtitled, Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. The book has been called “a masterpiece” and “…the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published.” In this amazing book, the authors, two eminent economists, survey and chart 800 years of financial cycle booms and […]

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Book Review: Other Minds

This fascinating book is subtitled, The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. So, no, this isn’t a business book. It is more of an ‘expand your perspectives book’ or a ‘think outside the box book.’ For the author, Peter Godfrey-Smith, I give him my highest compliment: This book is extremely thought provoking. […]

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Book Review: How to be Rich

Every year there are lots of new business books, often on trending topics. Occasionally, I like to go back and read an old business book. Sometimes I’ll do this because the book is a classic and worth revisiting. Other times, I like to read an old business book to see whether the book’s advice or […]

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A New Model of Transportation

Last week, I provided a book review of Autonomy—The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How it Will Reshape Our World. This week, I’m following up with what this might actually look like. First, it should be stated that the traditional car companies are all working on this, but they are behind the tech companies, […]

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