LINCHPIN Unboxing!
January 7, 2010 by Paul Mayson · 2 Comments
Hot off the press and before you can buy it, I just got a review copy of Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?. It just came in about 15 minutes ago so we don’t have a proper review ready for you yet, but we do have what may be the very first “unboxing” [...]
DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
January 6, 2010 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
A lot of us have experienced what Dan Pink covers in his new book, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. You know that feeling inside that sometimes goes like this “maybe this job is a waste of time and I should do something else”, or “my day completely disappeared – this doesn’t even [...]
Some things to think about (and do) in 2010.
December 30, 2009 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
Seth Godin got together about 70 smart people to write something brief about “What Matters Now” and he released it as a free PDF. It’s been available for a few weeks already, but as we close in on New Year’s Eve, it seems appropriate to bring it back to the surface… Especially if you somehow [...]
Snow Leopard Super Reference Showdown
December 8, 2009 by Paul Mayson · 2 Comments
One of the original ideas of the site was to have head to head book reviews. They’re not common in traditional outlets, probably for a couple of reasons. One, there has to be a winner and a loser (or degrees of each) and that’s not going to make some people happy. Second, it’s [...]
Three Books to Unlock Your Inner Artist
November 24, 2009 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
This is the time of year that a lot of people start to “reflect” and plan for greater things. Over those shared vacation weeks we make notes. During family gatherings ideas get bounced around. We say, “things are going to be different next year.” All that kind of stuff.
Through blogs, we’re [...]
Author Andy Ihnatko does the CBS Morning Show
November 21, 2009 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
Up and at them! I caught a tweet from @ihnatko bright and early Saturday morning announcing an appearance on the CBS Early Show. The El Gato was fired up and caught the whole thing – lucky timing. Andy’s new edition of iPhone Fully Loaded is coming in December (according to the Amazon pub date). [...]
Confessions of a Berkun lecture attendee
November 18, 2009 by Paul Mayson · 1 Comment
The School of Visual Arts was kind enough to host author Scott Berkun, and allow any schlub off the street to attend. Wanting to be prepared, I grabbed the Kindle version of Scott’s latest book, CONFESSIONS OF A PUBLIC SPEAKER, and managed to make it about 20% of the way through before the talk.
The talk [...]
