Tag: Books
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I was too excited to put into practice what I just learned from Part 1 of Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!: immerse in creative work instead of hogging content. So I ended up spending my whole day revamping my blog and aligning it to who I see myself in the next five years. And instead of mindlessly…
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I first wrote about Station Eleven in an earlier post, and even then, I already knew it was the kind of book that doesn’t leave you easily. But reading it two years into a real pandemic changed something about the experience. The dystopia Mandel imagined is far worse than what we lived through, and yet…
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For so long, I believed that creativity was this magical thing—like finding your muse, or something that flows through your bloodline. I recall moments when, as a kid, I sat and thought deeply, waiting for the ideas to come to me and help me write. Then I read The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett. He…
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You can download the PDF form of this special limited edition of People Like Us here. I like reading Seth Godin’s books and blogs, and this one was free and short—easy to dive into during a time when I was navigating spaces where I felt like an outsider, trying to understand the unspoken rules everyone…
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I read this book during the pandemic, when I was out of work and disoriented about my identity after job titles were stripped away from me. Writing this now reminded me of the hours I spent watching the blue skies, letting the clouds pass me by, while tugging hard and keeping our goat Dolly from…
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As someone who makes time to read books, at least six a year, I am always on the lookout for titles that I find relevant to whatever I am going through or what I want to become and improve at. So when a friend—who knows what kind of reader I am—recommends a title that’s not…