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The AwkEng is Back With Another Mini Book Report
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Another mini book report for you! As per usual, they are listed in the general order of how much I recommend them and/or how much I enjoyed...
Assistant to the AwkEng
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I've mentioned briefly in a few previous blog posts that I work with a personal assistant. Some readers expressed curiosity about this, so ...
The AwkEng Discovers a Better Way to Pop Popcorn
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Today's post is about serendipity and discovering a better way to pop popcorn. It could be this is just common popcorn knowledge, but I did...
The AwkEng Leaves Bread Crumbs (and is Available for Your Podcast!)
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I'm issuing an open solicitation for recommendations and introductions to appear on podcasts. They're a lot of fun to record and I'd hap...
The AwkEng and Project Management - What Clicked?
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A few people have asked me lately to describe my approach to running projects. Really, it distills down to implementing two separate pieces...
The AwkEng Is Inspired by Ted Lasso (and also Takes Photos Around Somerville)
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The trees are blooming in Somerville, so I took my kids on a "photo walk" and took pictures around the neighborhood. (They had a toddler ca...
Bigger Than Usual Book Report
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Larger than usual book report today and the writeups are longer than usual. I'll include my summary for Turn The Ship Around, which gets my...
Book Summary: Start With Why
I read Start With Why because it's referenced by several others books I've read recently. It's good, but save yourself a lot of time and watch Simo...
Books Summary: Continuous Discovery Habits
I read Continuous Discovery Habits after going down a rabbit hole looking for a better way to organize information gathered from customer intervie...
Book Summary: Built to Last
I read Built to Last with the knowledge that Jim Collins had worked with Jeff Bezos in Amazon's early days, and it's clear to me after reading thi...
Book Summary: When Coffee and Kale Compete
When Coffee and Kale Compete is going on my recommend list. It takes a lot of ideas from other books and clarifies and refines them. It even calls ...
Book Summary: Turn the Ship Around
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I want to highly recommend Turn the Ship Around. In a nutshell, the book is about intentionally designing systems into an organization or c...