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Book Notes: The Last Lecture

July 20, 2013 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

My greatest fear as a father is that I won’t survive to see my children grow up. I guess I think that something terrible could happen to me before I see them get where they need to get. While it’s something I tend to keep to myself, it’s this fear that drew me to the story of Randy Pauch, a 47-year-old father of three with pancreatic cancer and only months to live. ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Last Lecture

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Book Notes: Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear

July 1, 2012 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

I don’t say this too often, but drop what you’re doing and grab a copy of Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear by Hugh McLeod.  I Loved this one. In a matter of a couple of hours hours, his pithy collection of wisdom builds a case for cheap, easy, global media and its ability to cultivate personal freedom.  From mini-chapters like It’s Never Been Easier to Spot a ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear

Tagged With: Blogging, Book reviews

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Book Notes: Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

June 30, 2012 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This week I read Turning Pro - Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work by Steven Pressfield.  It is about the process of coming to do your life’s work.  Turning Pro is a decade later follow up to his bestseller, The War of Art.  It was in War that he first described Resistance, the malignant internal force that keeps us from doing our life’s work.  As a means ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

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Book Notes: Abundance

May 27, 2012 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

This week I read Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think, by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis.  This book serves up the ambitious vision that, for the first time in history, technology has the potential to ‘significantly raise the basic standards of living for every man, woman, and child of the planet.’ The early part of the book lays out the bold promise ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Abundance

Tagged With: Future

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Book Notes: Stop Stealing Dreams

March 18, 2012 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 3 minutes

Our educational system needs rebooting according to Seth Godin’s new e-book, Stop Stealing Dreams.  This is a manifesto which suggests that our system of schooling, once predicated on scarcity of access to information, has been destroyed by the connection economy.  The skills, attitudes, and needs of our graduates have changed dramatically.  Our society and the way we ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Stop Stealing Dreams

Tagged With: Physicians

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Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields

October 16, 2011 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

I’ve been feeling a little uncertain recently.  I’ve got some new projects on the horizon that represent some very different directions for me.  So I read Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields.  It’s as if the book was written just for me. Uncertainty is written to give you an understanding of your own creative process.  It offers daily practices and changes that will ... Continue Reading about Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields

Tagged With: Creativity

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