Personal MBA Summary

Josh Kaufman offers the Ten Big Ideas from his new book “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”

His book isn’t easy to summarize: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business is a distillation of 226 of the most important ideas in modern business practice. There are, however, a few big ideas and recurring themes that will help you understand why learning business is so important… and how to focus on learning useful business skills instead of useless academic theories.

Read on... Personal MBA Summary

The 4-Hour Workweek: Is it really possible?

I'm halfway through listening to the audio book version of The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris. While many of his strategies for reducing non-productive (i.e. non-profitable) time and increasing leisure time and achieving goals sound great, do they really work? Well, he's done it himself, though not without challenges. I don't know that I can do them all, but I will be putting several of his strategies into practice and reporting back here whether they worked for me (e.g. blogging from Tahiti) or not (e.g. get fired). This should be interesting.

Currently Reading...

So, this post started out as a "what am I reading" topic. Funny things happen on the way to a posting. At first I thought I'd post a list of favorite books. Then I thought about listing what I'm currently reading. Well, in addition to being in various stages of reading a couple of books I'm also listening to a book on CD (ripped to my MP3 player). Finally, capitalist as I am, I thought I'd shamelessly plug as many items as possible that I thought you'd enjoy, too. 


I'm currently reading Atlas Shrugged, which I became interested in while watching an episode of Mad Men (Season 1) last fall. I have heard of Atlas Shrugged many times over the years, but never got around to reading it, and was vaguely aware of the premise. Then I saw Glenn Beck wearing a "Reardon Metals" t-shirt in a video on his website and one thing lead to another and I proceeded to reserve a copy at the local library. I also happen to be reading Arguing With Idiots at home. A very easy ready when you have 5-10 minutes at a time...


Anyway, Atlas Shrugged is not a quick read (~1200p). I'm travelling again, so I picked up the pace a few weeks ago by reading while on the road. I've been playing the renew-renew-hold-repeat game since I haven't been getting through this very quickly. If you're not familiar with the aforementioned game, it's where I check out items on my library card, renew them as many times as allowed, then place a hold on the same item with my daughters library card, then the day after returning the item it is ready for pick up on her card. I've had to do this several times with the Young Adventures of Indiana Jones, as it takes several weeks to get through an entire season with the kids. In one of my stops at the library I picked up Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army on MP3.


So there you are. I wonder what I'll be reading/watching/listening to on my trip to Cancun next month?