Budding author Kosoko Jackson pulled his debut young adult novel, A Place for Wolves, after a prerelease version blew up Twitter and Goodreads. Seems the social media mob had a problem with the book’s insensitive treatment of LGBTQ and Muslim characters: From me to the Book Community: I’m Sorry. pic.twitter.com/sFXQAlQCk9[…] Read On
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Be You.
I do not believe in a formulaic view of success. There is no formula for a great career or a wonderful life. There are simply too many variables. Too much randomness. Too many opportunities to screw up, to take the wrong path, to make the wrong decision. As if that[…] Read On
Triggers: A Dumb Book Won’t Help You Become the Person You Want to Be, But This Might
I started writing about the toxic triggers I want to leave behind in 2018 when a Google search turned up a Marshall Goldsmith book called Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be. I would have gone with one subhead or the other, but that’s just me.[…] Read On
Forget All That Leadership Nonsense and Do Your Freaking Job
First there was the scourge of political correctness. Then came the No Asshole Rule, Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Capitalism. Now we’re supposed to Lead with Dignity by raising our “dignity consciousness.” Meanwhile leaders are supposed to be likable, positive and grateful. They’re supposed to avoid conflict, not to mention saying[…] Read On
We are Living in an Ayn Rand Novel
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” – Ayn Rand Brooklyn’s Lincoln High School had an English teacher named Mrs.[…] Read On
The ‘Self-Help’ Scam
I am not a fan of the self-help, personal improvement, motivational genre. To be specific, it’s the I can [teach you/help you/motivate you] to be [happy/rich/successful] if you buy my [book/blog/course] merry-go-round I don’t care for. I don’t care if authors have academic, research, finance, religious or sales backgrounds, they’re mostly shysters[…] Read On
Another Day, Another Steve Jobs Tell-All Book. Yawn
Another day, another Steve Jobs tell-all book. Cue the biting commentary, the judgmental outrage, the recriminations, the Twitter tantrums. Yawn. Not to mention the overwrought headlines by disillusioned techies who didn’t even read the damn book, like Business Insider’s “The memoir by Steve Jobs’ daughter makes clear he was a[…] Read On