book review

Winner: “One Year to an Organized Life”

This took me a little a longer to get posted than I intended, but the winner is commenter 2: Prolific Programmer. One Year to an Organized Work Life: From Your Desk to Your Deadlines, the Week-by-Week Guide to Eliminating Office Stress for Good is available from Amazon, as well.

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Giveaway: One Year to an Organized Work Life

I’ve got a review of One Year to an Organized Work Life: From Your Desk to Your Deadlines, the Week-by-Week Guide to Eliminating Office Stress for Good up at LifeHack today. To sum up my review over there, I think it’s a useful tool for getting organized. It presents a holistic approach and a very [...]

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Review: My So-Called Freelance Life

In My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire, Michelle Goodman jumps from writers to massage therapists to just about every other freelance profession you can think of. That variety doesn’t detract from the book though — it just proves that there are basics that every type of [...]

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Review: The 4-Hour Workweek

I finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss, not too long ago, but it’s taken me a little while to digest. I found it more than a little arrogant in tone, but I have to recommend it to just about any entrepreneur — especially freelance [...]

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Review: “Made to Stick”

I read a lot of marketing books, because I’m interested in the writing that goes into marketing and advertising. I just finished “Made to Stick.” The tagline of the book is “Why some ideas survive and others die,” which I find to be a very valuable set of concepts for a writer. The book is [...]

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