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Without fail by Lee Child
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. …
Enjoying this a bunch now. Hoping nothing goes sideways!
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Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does …
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Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile …
Phil in SF quoted Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
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Though, I did see enough to suggest that the strapless number — in December! — might have benefited from a bit of a hoick.
New word: hoick
Noun - an abrupt pull.
Phil in SF quoted Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile …
While all my former MFA classmates were out there signing with agents or having short stories published or getting book deals, I was stumbling through the kind of assignments they all would have sneered at.
That must be a really good MFA program.
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Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing high-profile book deals, all she does …
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Echo Burning by Lee Child
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver …
Phil in SF stopped reading Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
What is Violent Communication?
If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or …
Giving up on this one too. I suspect there's dome good stuff here, but the author relates multiple examples that are just exhausting to contemplate.
Shitty person says something ("stigma of illegitimacy would be a good thing") Second person then guesses as to why the person might have expressed that. But has to express it in the form of a non judgemental question. Then shitty person and decent person go through a series of guessing game answers and questions.
Because we have to express ourselves nonviolently and seek to understand the good reasoning behind shitty people utterances and actions.
And... No.
Phil in SF commented on Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
What is Violent Communication?
If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or …
So far, Rosenberg is advocating for communicating in a way i find generally useful and positive.
Generally.
There's two things I'm going to find irritating if he doesn't address them tho:
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There's a thread running through that if we just express ourselves with this nonviolent method, that we'll solve many interpersonal problems. I suspect this won't go as far as proffered. If we just be nice, we get better results. It feels like a form of respectability politics in comms. People will stop hurting us if we just communicate in a non judgemental nonviolent way.
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We're supposed to avoid moral judgement, the idea that people we disagree with are bad. More like they do bad things that upset us. But i see no other way of viewing people who consistently do bad things. At a certain point I'm going to make a judgement regarding their character.
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Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
What is Violent Communication?
If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how …
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
Does not stand out
2 stars
More philosophy and tips than coherent practices. Some absolute bullshit as well. Not recommended.
Phil in SF stopped reading Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Kim Scott
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
I give up on this thing. Aside from the bullshit I've already highlighted, i would rather a bunch of exercises or methods not a hodge-podge of tips and philosophy (if they're good).
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
Think about it— whether it's the gay man forced to weather anti-gay jokes or the conservative force to weather anti-conservative jokes, the result is the same— some part of them is negated, and they can't help feeling alienated, not free at work.
— Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Kim Scott
What!?? The result is not the fucking same!! (Got a strong feeling me and this book are not going to finish together.)
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
I recommend setting up a weekly quote big debate unquote meeting. In my staff meeting we identified the most important debate each week, and who needed to be involved (see "'Big Debate' Meetings" in Chapter 8)
— Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Kim Scott
I'm all in favor of having robust discussions where people are allowed to disagree, but having a weekly scheduled disagreement seems really exhausting.
Phil in SF commented on Radical Candor: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Kim Scott
Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care …
Radical Candor does a thing that a lot of other business books do and that does not help most of them. The author liberally sprinkles in anecdotal stories from her own experience and that of various famous leaders. These theoretically reinforce the correctness of her philosophy but such cherry-picking is very dubious.