Brittany Joiner
Basically whole book can be summed up in : work hard. A lot of unnecessary words and repetition which might be helpful for some people but wasn't for me. Also felt like each story was just people bragging about how hard they work and never take a break, which I've come to learn isn't healthy and honestly isn't even really the way to success. This book is just also not super well written. Daymond is a fantastic businessman but his writing style isn't my fav.
Had a few good tips for people who are remote working and mentioned some tools I hadn't heard of before. I might recommend if you're not at all familiar with remote work. A few things I didn't like .... There were a couple things I really disagreed with - like taking uncomfortable conversations to a #pillow-fight channel on slack after unsuccessfully discussing one one one. A lot of things were repeated multiple times. It's incredibly repetitive. I feel like I could basically get the same amount of info by just googling a few articles and studies about remote working.
THIS WAS SO GOOD. I love Lauren Graham and I was worried I was going to be disappointed because I had high expectations. This was amazing. As a big fan of Parenthood and Gilmore Girls, I especially appreciated all the references and the trip down memory lane as she talked about those shows. There's also a lot of good quotes and life advice in here. Great book, and I definitely heard Lorelei's voice in my head as I read it.
This will forever be my favorite personal finance book. I read it in college and it was really helpful and has shaped a lot of my personal finance philosophy, and I just read it again and picked up even more than I did the first time and actually grasped a lot of the things Ramit talks about with investing. Thinking I'm going to make it a regular thing to read this book once every few years!
I think this might be the best book I've read in all of 2017. Lots of practical thoughts on life and how those apply to work. So many good takeaways that I don't even know where to start in implementing. I think this could easily be a book that I go through several times, and focus on pieces of it at a time.
Also fantastic advice for running a business. And it was cool to see how all those things were based on how we should live our lives.
Maybe I'm just used to hearing about this kind of stuff, but I feel like this didn't really say anything new or profound. I kept hanging with it to see if it would get better, but was a little disappointed. The gist is exactly the title - have simple rules. Use rules to make decisions, and only have a few of them. The book went through a lot of examples and stories so if you're into that kind of stuff maybe you'd enjoy it more than me. Loved the concept, just felt like it could have been a blog post instead of a whole book
Part of it might have been the play format, but the story didn't grab me like the other books. Took a while to really get into, and the protagonist's inner conflict wasn't really a big enough deal to me to feel connected to the story. Also didn't at all feel like a natural transition from the last Harry Potter stories. After a while the story got more interesting, and it did at least hold my attention but I wouldn't recommend it.
