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Dan Clark : The Art of Significance

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I liked the concept. Good stuff. Is it significant? (Like Shu Hattori's work, or Scott Adams' "How to Fail at Everything and.." or "Fall in Love with the Problem..:" by Uri Levine?) No 😊 Because he doesn't give you enough practical advice you can readily apply in your daily life - or not enough. There is a bit - like don't honk or be mad at someone doing a bad-traffic thing. Good concepts. Just not sticky enough because the hard work of identifying where you can do something differently in the life you know hasn't been done - something very few people do by the way. So, all told. great book. Allen Iverson and Antoine Walker (NBAers) went broke despite earning more than $100m during their playing years, went broke. AW's story is here : he wanted to have it all - like the hip-hoppers Jay-Z and Puff Daddy - so didn't rein in his spending. These guys will get an NBA pension of about $100k a year once they hit 45 or so. In Iverson's case...

Mark Divine : The Way of the SEAL

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www.unbeatablemind.com Be aware of your stand . Write down your answers to these questions :  What will you do if : You had only one year to live? You were struck by a natural disaster? A friend asked you for help moving but you'd rather go watch a movie? You found out your favourite brand is exploiting workers? You won the lottery? Someone decided to fight you for no reason? A opportunity for an inside deal came your way? (wha?) A friend or teammate is bashing someone you know behind your back? (wha?) Box breathing Four counts per phase - in, hold, exhale, hold Also called combat breathing. Helps you stay in control Failure is our teacher (Robert O'Neil (SEAL) says in his talk - "Failure is not bad") Recommended reading H. Jackson Brown Life's Little Instruction Book "Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did...

James Marcus Bach's Reading List

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From his talk at Google :  https://www.satisfice.com/download/becoming-a-software-testing-expert „ Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid , Douglas Hofstadter. „ The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Ed., 1996, Herbert A. Simon „ Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, Gerald M. Weinberg. „ Secrets of Consulting, 1986, Gerald M. Weinberg „ More Secrets of Consulting, 2002, Gerald M. Weinberg „ Quality Software Management, Vol. 1: Systems Thinking, 1991, Gerald M. Weinberg „ General Principles of Systems Design, 1988, Gerald M. Weinberg, Daniela Weinberg „ Tools of Critical Thinking, 1997, David A. Levy „ Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, 1989, Don Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg „ The Social Life of Information, 2000, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid „ How to Solve It, 1945, George Polya „ How to Read and Do Proofs, 1990, Daniel Solow „ Judgment and Decision Making, 2000, Terry Connolly, et al „ Cognition in the Wild, 1996, Edwin Hutchins „ Thinking and Deciding, 1...