How do you survive and thrive in this fiercely competitive economy? You need a whole new entrepreneurial mindset and skill set. Drawing on the best of Silicon Valley, The Start-Up of You helps you accelerate your career and take control of your future–no matter your profession.The authors mock the What Color Is Your Parachute approach of establishing a clear desired vision, and urge instead an aggressively flexible approach of constantly rethinking your priorities, which to me sounds like an awful lot of work. It seemed to me full of assumptions about personal values and experiences which will apply only to a small subset of people, most of whom are either already very well off or are already well-placed to become so. There is no harm in encouraging people to think creatively, and some of the ideas about networking are actually rather good, but I don't recommend this particularly strongly.
The Startup of You, by Reid Hoffmann and Ben Canocha
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The Power, by Naomi Alderman
Second paragraph of third chapter: Tunde is twenty-one, just out of that period of his life where everything seemed the wrong size, too long or too…
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The Story of English in 100 Words, by David Crystal
Second paragraph of third entry ("And"): Why get so excited over a 'little word' like and? In most wordbooks, it's the 'content words' that attract…
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Brave New Worlds, ed. John Joseph Adams
Second paragraph of third story ("Ten with a Flag", by Joseph Paul Haines): It only took him a couple of seconds to connect to the traffic web.…
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