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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Two fascinating links
Ancestral rivers of the world What if the Ice Ages had been less icy? (Hat-tip to [Unknown LJ tag] commenting in reply to [Unknown LJ tag].)
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Noted in passing
I am fortunate enough to read many interesting things on my friends list. Here are some of them from the last week to share with you all: John…
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A few links
Not sure how I saw the first two of these, the third is off the Dublin sector of my friends-list. Reading guide to Terry Pratchett's Discworld…
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