Book: Contagious: Why Things Catch On Jonah Berger has put together a highly readable series of insights around what makes people share ideas, packed with examples. The acronym of the book’s ideas is STEPPS. Social Currency – insider knowledge you can introduce to your social circle. Triggers – part of the idea is closely tied to …
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book: the hard thing about hard things
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz The trouble with being a CEO is there’s no rule-book to follow. Horowitz outlines his experiences running companies during the dot com bubble burst, and provides lessons on what it looks like to run a well-structured tech start-up, …
book: things a little bird told me
Book: Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind A business book that covers the history of twitter, from co-founder Biz Stone’s perspective. Lots of anecdotes and a series of ideas around creativity: it’s an easy read, but is more about the history of twitter than a collection of insights into how …
book: steve jobs
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (affiliate link). This is one of those books that I had every intention of reading when it was released, but was too busy to read at the time. When I had the chance to borrow it, I jumped, and spent most of my train trips for a week (and a sleepless …
Book: Eyrie
Book: Eyrie It’s been a while since I’ve read a Tim Winton novel – I think the last one was also a Christmas present. Winton taps into the class struggle, environment vs mining battle and the dramas of middle age in a novel that is a bit of a page turner, with some achingly well …
book: the Christ files
This book by John Dickson was recommended to a friend, so I thought I’d grab a copy and read through it. It’s a high-level summary of the non-Christian and Christian historical documents that point to the existence of Jesus. Worth a read if you’re after an overview of the ancient evidence for the existence of …
Book: The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor
Book: The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry Saw this on a discount shelf at Koorong, and thought I’d pick it up. Joint authored by John Piper and Don Carson, this is the story of two gifted academics and church ministers who took quite different paths. Piper started …
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book: do you feel called by God?
Having finished college, I finally feel like image time to read books again, rather than just doing endless readings on a particular topic. I spotted this one in a recent Briefing magazine, and thought I’d give it a try. Author Michael Bennett is an ordained minister who never felt the sense of God leading him …
Book: The Shallows
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains I was reading an article written by the author, Nicholas Carr, on the subject of whether Google is making us stupid, and thought it would be worth reading the whole thing. Carr steps through all the history of a number of pieces of technology (after …
book: no
A book on negotiation called “no” seemed intriguing so I grabbed it from the library. Professional negotiator Jim Camp has written this as a how-to guide for his own style of negotiation. Rather than wasting time with people-pleasing, but ultimately futile “yes-es” in the early stages of a negotiation, he advocates eliminating neediness and emotion …