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- _niko3
stated reading this, sort of puts into perspective why being an entrepreneur, manager and technician of your own company leads to a train wreck.
Especially as creatives, we love doing the work but not necessarily running the business side of things.
so far so good, a little simplistic and a but condescending in tone but I'll read it through.
- Interesting, this is often recommended, but I haven't read it. I can recommend Company of One, which is focused on building small successful businesses.skinny_puppy
- palimpsest1
- At least this one will come out in English translationGnash
- This month apparently. Tho you shooda learnt French by now. Only one of his I've read, it's worth it.palimpsest
- I know. 12 years of French in school and I still get the hairy eyeball when I try and speak it. Next life I’ll try harderGnash
- Hey thank you Mr Psest, I just read that (in French) and I liked it!omer
- _niko2
- also, I thought we had a thread for these self-help sort of books but can't find it._niko
- Book threads are over the place. Of the day don’t seem right.MrT
- agree, I did some more digging and this was the thread i was thinking about: https://www.qbn.com/…_niko
- I read a lot, not self help though (maybe that’s the problem lols). We should have a Good Reads thread, if only to fuck with Zuck a bit.MrT
- trooperbill2
- wow, u just gave me the perfect gift idea for a friends birthday :)
thank you.sted - or try the hodinkee annualstrooperbill
- wow, u just gave me the perfect gift idea for a friends birthday :)
- mg333
Started reading this over the weekend, will be a slow read as it's usually just before bed, but it's the first fiction book that's grabbed my interest based on the description in quite a while:
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/e…I've got other books in in various states of reading, but my most ones aside from this that I've actually started are:
- I'll check it out. As a Stephen King fan growing up, his newer stuff always fell flat for me. Hopefully this is better.monospaced
- It was typical King. Ultimately a bit predictable and the "twist" at the end was totally unnecessary. Not close to his best work, but better than some.monospaced
- pr20
"A History of Civilizations" by Fernand Braudel
"Chaos: Making a New Science" by James Gleick
"Charisma" by Charles Lindholm
- You forgot "The narcissist's guide to anal foreplay" by Rodney Spread.Nairn
- also please add:
The Impact of Minigolf on Human Morality by Sterling Malory Archersted - are you guys trolling? cause if joking, they seem to miss the target by a long stretch.pr2
- no, we're just enjoying ecstatic collective experiences :)sted
- I read braudel’s, ‘Mediterranean...’ a very interesting perspectiveGnash
- shapesalad2
- Loved this book. Fucking hilarious Also liked his neon bible. Too bad he died so young.
Not a fan of Gary’s cover thoughGnash - some say his mother actually wrote it and published it in his name. i lived in new orleans and it's a classic there.sarahfailin
- I heard those rumors too. I don’t buy it. I can see her maybe having more to do with Neon Bible, but not ignatiousGnash
- I get the feeling he abandoned neon bible - Maybe she finished it? I don’t know. But man, that dunces book was fantastic.Gnash
- That cover is bugging me more and more. He should have not tried to portray ignatiousGnash
- Loved this book. Fucking hilarious Also liked his neon bible. Too bad he died so young.