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I’ve been juggling a few good books lately. Here are three that I’ve really loved during the last month or so:
Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Chouinard is the founder of Patagonia and this book is about his evolution as a businessman. I saw him speak at Lewis and Clark College a couple of [...]

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Matt recently befriended me on GoodReads. I’d never used it and quickly set up an account. I just deleted that account. I’ve been using LibraryThing for a while now, and GoodReads just didn’t offer a compelling enough alternative.
LibraryThing and GoodReads are similar in a lot of ways. At their essence they both track what’s on [...]

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I was talking to my friend Scott on the phone the other day and I mentioned some books I thought he might like reading. Figured I’d archive the list here for easy reference. This is definitely not a comprehensive list, just a list of books that have been helpful to me. There’s another list of [...]

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Man, I have been neglectful (is that a word?) over here. Slacker Manager has been sucking in all my attention lately. Speaking of which, it’s going pretty well. Thanks for asking. I’m getting about 300 visitors per day and nearly double that in page views. And, as of a moment [...]

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I did a different kind of work today. Today was ‘Serve Day’ at the university. That means that everyone, and I mean everyone, goes out into the local community and does manual labor. All kinds of stuff–painting, yard work, ditch digging, roofing, building stuff, etc… It’s a really big deal, since [...]

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So, it looks like I’m number one. At least for now. That’s some slight consolation for the server going down and making the Link Harvest lose it’s Google ranking. Anyway, I guess that means that the two proposals in front of mine were asked to write them, leaving me with the first [...]

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I really like Seth Godin’s new “ChangeThis” website. It’s a compelling idea–basically, people write “manifestos” of ideas that they think are important. The site is getting lots of attention since it’s launch last week. The first manifestos that were featured on the site were solicited by Seth and his team. Most of the writers are [...]

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I wanna write some books. I’m going to start by writing about what I want to write about. Makes sense, eh? Some of this is pretty vague in my head and it’ll probably sound more vague here, but here we go…
First, something along the lines of “A slacker’s guide to the workplace” [...]

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