December 2009
4 posts
How to Digest a Library Book in Less than Two...
I maintain a constant stack of between five and a dozen library books on the floor next to my bed. The local library lets me place up to fifteen books on hold at a time, and at any given moment I am probably using up my entire quota. Clearly, I have far too many books on hand to read in a reasonable amount of time, and yet I rarely return a book to the library until I have gleaned every useful...
Book Review: Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited
I have just finished reading Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What To Do About It. The book offers advice to future and present entrepreneurs, especially the ones who are highly skilled employees who have decided to start a business around their area of expertise. The format of the book is a series of descriptions of interactions between the author...
Book Review: Peak Learning by Ronald Gross
I was excited to read Peak Learning: A Master Course in Learning How to Learn by Ronald Gross. This book is one of the classic manuals for adult self-education; the author has been one of the leading writers and speakers in the field since the publication of the Independent Scholar’s Handbook in the 1970s. Peak Learning contains a huge amount of material, with topics ranging from how best to...
Turn Your Library into a Delivery Box
In a previous post I mentioned that I constantly keep a stack of five to a dozen library books by my bed and that this stack rotates extremely quickly. In this post I will describe the system that allows me to maintain and replenish this stack with books from libraries all over the Atlanta area for a time cost of about ten minutes once a week. The system revolves around a new conception of the...