The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman7/8/2023 All in all, 2011 was a huge year for The Personal MBA. A revised and updated paperback edition and audiobook are also in the works. The book has been very well received by readers, and continues to sell consistently well worldwide. One year after publication, the book ranks in the top 0.1% of all business books sold on with no sign of slowing down. Since publication, The Personal MBA has become an international bestseller, and is currently in the process of being translated for distribution in twelve languages. Accordingly, this edition contains updates based on two years of research. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business was published in January of last year, so a dedicated 2011 edition of the reading list wasn’t published. This year’s update combines the 20 updates into a single edition. The 99 Personal MBA-recommended books will teach you everything you need to know about how to make more money, get more done, and have more fun in the process. The 2012 edition is the seventh edition of the reading list, and is the result of eight solid years of research. Today, I’m happy to announce the latest edition of the Personal MBA reading list.
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By which I mean, I still loved coming up with stories and plotting them out, but every time I tried to begin the actual writing, I’d feel sick. I couldn’t think about writing without experiencing significant anxiety. So basically I completely burned out and went crashing down in flames. You recently came off of a self-imposed hiatus, can you share the obstacles you’ve encountered getting back into the groove of writing and how hard was it to not feel like you should be writing? I just have to mention that.įirst off, thank you for going along with this interview! I know time is precious and I really appreciate it. You’ve always been so loyal and supportive - and you really have been here since the beginning. Rhys, you were one of the first friends I made online. Luckily, I nudged Josh for a chance to get an interview with him and pimp out his latest endeavor.Īw. I spent last night reading it and probably will reread it because really, it was that good. And to this list, I am going to have to add The Haunted Heart, Josh’s latest release. Instead, I had the delightful chance to see an author hone his craft and produce an astonishing body of work. I’ll have to go dig up the book to remember its original cover but needless to say, it was a long haul waiting for the next Adrien book.īut no, I’m not bitter. I’ve been stalking Josh Lanyon since Fatal Shadows came out in paperback way back when. I want to start this off with a full disclosure. Interview with the inestimable Josh Lanyon Short stories by junot diaz7/8/2023 Without them noticing, he unlatched the window, so he could get inside the house. Diaz decided to break into his friend’s house, by asking one of the friends to use his bathroom. He would read books about investigations, and his mind was very intuitive. Diaz became very curious and wanted to solve this case. His friends were not taking him seriously, and he realized that it was them. He was talking about the robbery and started to get suspicious. Diaz was determined to solve this case and find out who stole his belongings.ĭays after the robbery, Diaz was with his friends, and they were all telling stories. The mother was very mad that she started to blame the kids and the family instead of the thieves. Diaz’s belongings were gone, and the thieves also stole his mother’s money. The family decided to go on a vacation one day, and when they got back, their house was a mess. Diaz and his family lived in a bad neighborhood, where cars and apartments would frequently get robbed. They were immigrants, so people would target them. Diaz described his family’s economic situation, and it was not the greatest. She did not have a stable job, nor did her husband. Diaz’s mother would save money little by little to send it back home to the Dominican Republic because her parents lived alone. Junot Diaz's short story describes a time in his life in which he and his family were robbed of their belongings. The Money by Junot Diaz summary provides an insightful analysis of the short story's plot and themes. The flame cohen7/8/2023 That’s about it for me,” he told the magazine’s editor David Remnick. “I don’t dare attach myself to a spiritual strategy. In an interview with the New Yorker last October, Cohen spoke of how “my natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun”, and of how he was getting up well before dawn to write. This book, finished only days before his death, reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire.” Those of us who had the rare privilege of spending time with him during this period recognised that the flame burned bright within him to the very end. “Though in declining health, Leonard died unexpectedly. The flame and how our culture threatened its extinction was a central concern,” said Kory. “During the final months of his life, Leonard had a singular focus – completing this book, taken largely from his unpublished poems and selections from his notebooks. By the late 60s, he was concentrating more on music, releasing his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, in 1967.Ĭohen’s manager and trustee of his estate Robert Kory said that pulling The Flame together had been a key ambition for the singer-songwriter at the end of his life. Cohen, who died at the age of 82, originally focused his career on poetry, publishing the collections Let Us Compare Mythologies in 1956, The Spice-Box of Earth in 1961, and Flowers for Hitler in 1964. The trial and the metamorphosis7/7/2023 Gregor, a man obsessed with work and money, wakes up to find himself in circumstances that destroy the life he has so carefully built up. K, a successful and controlling man, is suddenly thrust into circumstances he cannot influence. Both characters find themselves addressing foreign circumstances that threaten their respective positions within society. I found it funny, though, that The Trial was actually the more fantastical of the two stories, with K’s numerous adventures being consistently stranger than the majority of the events in The Metamorphosis. One might immediately assume that based on the subject matter of the two stories, The Metamorphosis is far more surreal than The Trial. However, now that I have read a few of Kafka’s other stories, it seems like a good time to compare The Trial to some of Kafka’s other works, in particular, The Metamorphosis. The Trial was my first Kafka novel, and as such, I had little to compare it to. Do a Google search for “machiavelli” and you’ll find that nearly every hit returned - apart from the biographical ones - reveals that most people using his name use it incorrectly and ignorantly. It is here that most people misinterpret Machiavelli. In this book, Machiavelli lays out his ideas about political power and how it should be wielded, presenting various methods by which leaders can maintain their hold on power. He is best known for his influential book The Prince, published in 1532, five years after his death. Born in Florence, Italy, Machiavelli lived during a time of political upheaval and conflict in Italy, and his writings reflect the tumultuous political climate of the era. “Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.” - Niccolo Machiavelliīorn 554 years ago today, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian philosopher, politician, and writer who is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers in Western history. 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Season 1 is the WINNER of the BAFTA Children's Award for Best Animated Series 2019! Season 2 is out now! After the fall rhodes7/7/2023 In his travels, Rhodes comes to realize how much America's fingerprints are on a world we helped to shape, through our post-Cold War embrace of unbridled capitalism and our post-9/11 nationalism and militarism our mania for technology and social media and the racism that fueled the backlash to America's first Black president. Is a hugely ambitious and essential work of discovery. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spoke with was poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he came to know saw their movement snuffed out, and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. travels the globe in a deeply personal, beautifully observed quest for answers. BESTSELLER - Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A former White House aide and close confidant to President Barack Obama-and the author of My darkest dearest7/7/2023 When I read Native Son as a senior in high school, I had to leave it on the sofa overnight because I couldn’t sleep with it in my room. Disney villains terrified me far beyond when it is socially acceptable to be terrified of Disney villains, and I had nightmares for months after watching not-that-scary movies like The Prestige and Angels and Demons. I’ve spent my whole life thinking that I’m a horror wimp. As the ghostly woman gets more demanding and dangerous, Finch and her new friends-including popular dancer Selena and cryptoid enthusiast Simon-must find out what and who she is and how to stop her before bloody history repeats itself. It could have gone either way because on one hand it is a LGBTQ+ fantasy novel, which is right in my wheelhouse, and on the other hand it’s a horror novel and historically I haven’t done well with horror.Īfter auditioning for a prestigious school, Finch and her parents are driven off the road by an eight-eyed deer and drowned… but Finch survives her death only to discover that a strange ghost is offering magical boons to schoolgirls in exchange for an increased connection to their world. For April, I read My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham. Every month Barnes and Noble picks several books of the month, and I almost always try to read one of them. Alexis de tocqueville's7/7/2023 It was this same tension, however, that provided the underlying creative impulse behind the extraordinarily dispassionate analyses of modern society contained in his two major works, Democracy in America (1835) and The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856). In his personal life this conflict of values proved almost too great to contain, and in his final years he succumbed to melancholy, despairing of the future of liberty and culture in Europe. Convinced of the irreversibility of democracy and contemptuous of reactionaries who thought they could block this historical movement, he was nevertheless obsessed by the erosion of those traditional contexts and values-aristocracy, honor, localism, religion, cultural variety-on which European liberty had depended for so many centuries. Tension between traditional and modern values dominated Tocqueville’s life and writings. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) lived at the time of two revolutions, the democratic and the industrial their impact upon the traditional order furnished him with the major themes of his scholarly work. |