This week Seth Godin released We Are All Weird, the latest installment in The Domino Project. Godin suggests that the mass market that defined us over the past couple of generations is dead. Our cultural orientation toward the center of the bell curve (normal) is progressively giving way to fringe groups that lie away from the center. The weird have forgone the ... Continue Reading about The Truth About Weird Doctors
Book Notes: The Filter Bubble
I recently read The Filter Bubble - What the Internet is hiding from you by Eli Pariser. As you’re probably aware, Google looks at your search history and takes it into consideration in subsequent queries. While over time our search becomes refined and personalized, Pariser argues that this happens at the expense of making our world view increasingly myopic. If ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Filter Bubble
4 Reasons You Should Read Enchantment
Last week I read Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki. Enchantment is a modern guide ‘the art of influence and persuasion’ that offers solid, practical advice on how work with people to get things done. It’s a unique manifesto for personal conduct – a guide to the moral exertion of influence. Read Enchantment. Here’s why: It’s written for everyone. Enchantment is a ... Continue Reading about 4 Reasons You Should Read Enchantment
Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
This week I read Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. It offers a powerful look at how connectedness influences behaviors such as happiness, loneliness and even the predisposition for suicide. Christakis and Fowler introduce the idea that social networks obey the Three Degrees ... Continue Reading about Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
Book Notes: The Emperor of All Maladies
I recently read The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a rich account of how modern medical science has come to understand and treat cancer. Cancer, I learned, is largely a preoccupation of modern times. Cancer was hardly a concern before the early 20th century when pneumonia and tuberculosis were the number one killers. We now live long enough to ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Emperor of All Maladies
Book Notes: Poke the Box
Poke the Box is Seth Godin’s latest book/manifesto. This is different from his other books in that it runs only 70 pages and is published as part of a new venture with Amazon called The Domino Project. You may remember last year Seth Godin rocked the world by suggesting he was done with mainstream publishers. This is where he’s landed. Poke the Box is a short, ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Poke the Box