For lack of a better title
I continue to recommend Dan Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko to just about all the young people I know. It’s such a quick, easy, and helpful (not to mention entertaining) read that it’s hard to pass up. The book is a great conversation starter about the nature of work and career, an [...]
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My childrens’ elementary school conducted its annual recognition assembly today. My kindergartner and second grader walked away with "star student," math, and spelling awards. They both received "homework party certificates" for completing the entire year’s worth of nightly homework. Most notable, however, may have been my son’s recognition as the "top reader" in his kindergarten [...]
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What’s a Manival, you say? It’s "a weekly blog carnival dedicated to bring together posts from blogs by men and for men" that’s being assembled by Brett McKay at The Art of Manliness. Brett was kind enough to include my post on How to Read a Book in this week’s list. If you’re visiting the [...]
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Illustration by superciliousness
What does Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, a career guide in graphic novel format, have in common with the U.S. Navy and Stanford University?
Comic books.
Or, properly, manga.
Dan reports that the U.S. Navy will issue a Japanese-language graphic novel in Yokosuka, Japan, in advance of the arrival [...]
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Since the 50 Books Project is now underway, it seemed a good time to introduce a related topic: how to read a book.
Wait a minute–you’re going to tell me how to read a book? I know how to read: I’ve been reading since first grade!
Well, yes, you have. But learning to read words on a [...]
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"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t."— Mark Twain
Brett over at The Art of Manliness has compiled a list of 100 Must-Read Books for manly men. Quickly browsing through the list, I’ve been through many of these over the years, including books by Machiavelli, George Orwell, [...]
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I’m planning to read 50 books from June 2008 through May 2009. The Prologue, Part 1, posted on May 12, 2008, introduces the project. You can find a list of the books on the 50 Books Project page.
June marks the beginning of the 50 Books Project. Here are the titles I’ll read in the [...]
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I’m planning to read 50 books from June 2008 through May 2009. The Prologue, Part 1, posted on May 12, 2008, introduces the project.
If you’ve looked at my reading list, you will have seen a column called "Source." I wanted a way to track the recommendations for the titles and this field captures that. A [...]
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us."–Thomas Carlyle
I recently finished my second graduate degree, an MBA. My first graduate degree, completed in 2000, was in contemporary theology. The professors are finished with me (for now) and so I’ve set a new goal: to read at [...]
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The semester is over. Summer is here and students will be off to jobs, internships, weddings, and who knows what else. It also means that they might have time to do something other than homework and textbook reading. How about investing time in a good book or two?
In my business communication class, I referenced several [...]
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