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Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Srinivas Rao acts as our guide to the creative life, and helps us understand that it's the ride of a lifetime.
August 04, 2016
Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard of the Democracy Collaborative offer seven principles for an "equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative" to the economy of, by, and for the one percent, and examples of them being put to work in the world.
July 26, 2019
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang delivers a timely message that rest needs to be deliberate, or our work will become debilitating
December 22, 2016
Sarah Lacy takes us on her journey through the patriarchy, and gives us a guide for personal and professional noncompliance with and resistance to it.
November 03, 2017
Todd Rose offers up a book to help us put an end to average in our own thinking, in the businesses we operate, and the society we live in.
January 28, 2016
Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler make thinking about what we do wrong with money a lot of fun.
November 10, 2017
Cal Newport details the advantages of deeper focus and concentration, of "deep work," and how to cultivate it.
January 07, 2016
Gloria Origgi has written a book on reputation that mixes the latest social science with the most timeless lessons of philosophy and literature to explore how our inner lives interact with and affect our social lives.
December 15, 2017
Jamie Sayen tells the story of Groveton, New Hampshire, and the mill that was once the life of the community, in the residents' own words.
December 22, 2017
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Ryan began his career in books as a bookseller in the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops. He joined 800-CEO-READ (now Porchlight) as the shipper/receiver, but has done almost every job here. He has also worked as a stevedore in New Orleans and Marketing Director and program host at WMSE. As Special Sales Director, Ryan taps into all of that experience to come up with creative solutions for the often elaborate bookselling scenarios he encounters. When not at work, he similarly multi-tasks on his farm, where he lives with his wife, two daughters, seven horses, two dogs, a house cat, a barn cat and—before a hawk and a fox intervened—six chickens. If you think you have a book scenario that is more challenging than that, he’d like to hear it.
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