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Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William McRaven

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I went to the University of Texas, so Admiral Bill McRaven’s 2014 commencement speech “If you want to change the world, make your bed,” has a special place in my burnt orange heart. But the speech has a ton of important and practical life advice applicable to anyone. You can grab an idea or short story to focus on in any given day and it will help you. This short book is based on his speech – a little more fleshed out and with some […]

Management Matters

Becoming a Better Boss by Julian Birkinshaw

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What makes a good boss? What separates the worst managers from the best? How can you keep your team happy and engaged, even as they and the work continues to grow and change? How can you get the leadership balance right between overlord and buddy? These are the questions that plague me. It’s no small thing to have a group of smart, caring, and committed people looking to you each weekday (and some weekends too) for guidance and support. People are incredibly complex and bring […]

A Totally Biased Review

Giving Back by Edward A. Joseph

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CBR Bingo: Home. In which I return home and find my father. Giving Back was written by my father, Edward Joseph. It’s a series of essays that he’s written and published over the years about family, memories, moments of human connection and advice for living. It’s a great book and I’m so proud of him. The way my father came into writing is intricately tied to my own story. I had been living in San Francisco but returned to my home city in New York […]

Adding F*ck to the title makes it seem deeper

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck should be used in marketing classes as prime example of what you can achieve with proper positioning. This book contains some pretty basic self-help advice (decent advice, for the most part) but appeals to a new audience by including fuck in the title. People who scoff at self-help are apt to pick it up and think, “Hey, this guy swears, he must be like me, not like those ultra touchy, feel-gooders who have a Ph.D. in Musicology but […]

Lackluster Career Advice

Safe and Effective Practice by Jean Cote

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My home is cluttered with career advice books that I didn’t ask for but which it was strongly implied that I should read.  Because these two were shorter books, I’m pairing them together in a single review: Safe and Effective Practice by Jean Cote: Lawyering is easy says an old white man. Ah, hindsight, that vaunted mountaintop that the experienced get to judge the rest of us from.  Jean Cote was previously a judge on Alberta’s Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province, […]

You’re in a Cult — Call your dad! And other life advice from Karen and Georgia

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

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Where my Murderinos at? Part self-help book (kinda), part memoir (mostly), and all kinds of things you didn’t know about Georgia and Karen (and probably weren’t afraid to ask), Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is a breezy, easy read with some serious points underlying all the humor — a lot like the “My Favorite Murder” podcast only written down in a version you can hold! We have gone from living inside your headphones to pouring ourselves out onto the page like a couple of […]



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