Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .
Review: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks— What makes us who we are, And understanding the power of the unconscious mind
David Brooks’s The Social Animal is a book about how we become who we are, both consciously and unconsciously. It’s about how we grow up, how our relationships influence us, how we make decisions and how much control those decision have over our lives, how we learn,...
Read moreWrite only if you cannot live without writing.
Write only what you alone can write.― Elie Wiesel
Review: Zero to One by Peter Thiel (with Blake Masters)— Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Let me start by simply saying this may well be the most important book I have read in years. According to Mr. Thiel, the future of our planet—the positive, growth future, not one that ends in nuclear apocalypse, gets wiped out by some strain of super flu, or some...
Read more[What is the secret to successful writing?]
Read.
Write.
Rewrite.
All three. Forever and ad nauseous. And then some more.—Joe Gores
Read moreA lot of people talk about writing.
The secret is to write, not talk.—Jackie Collins
Read moreWriting and rewriting
are a constant search
for what one is trying to say.—John Updike
Review: The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber— What every small business needs to know
So, what is the e myth? It is the basic myth of all small business, the "entrepreneurial myth." It usually starts with something along the lines of, "Why am I working for this guy? . . . I know as much about this business as he does. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't...
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