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The Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success by Penelope Trunk is two-thirds of a great book. The good parts are about finding a job or career and then finding success therein in the new world with new goals, objectives, and dreams.
The other third of it is dated, because it was written in 2007 and things have changed. In reality, this book is great to read and then promptly discard in favor of finding an actual mentor.
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If you’re ever in need of some inspiration, documentaries can be a good place to find some. Art and artist documentaries often carry the weight of the inspiration that inspired those artists and their works.
And so here are five I’ve recently watched that may be worth your time if you’re in need of a little inspiration.
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Sexy Little Numbers is a book designed to sell books and the services of marketing agencies. For me, this book was about as exciting as a bad TED Talk. The speaker, or in this case author, thinks it is interesting and the members of the audience who are just discovering this topic find it interesting.
However, for anyone who has a small understanding of the complexities of data as a concept, it’s just analytics 101. It’s hardly as exciting as author Dimitri Maex of marketing goliath Ogilvy & Mather attempts to make it.
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If you enjoy films, Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema, is a must-read. It’s also something I would highly recommend that aspiring filmmakers crack open.
Me? I’m not sure I fall into either camp, though I do dabble in film.
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While not entirely applicable, the word that kept coming into my head as I read “The Laptop Millionaire: How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online” was “shyster.”
Author Mark Anastasi’s 2012 book feels like a novel in that it is a bunch of regurgitated buzzword internet money-making schemes that feel more about making money than the “value” he claims they represent. Adversely, he never actually represents that value with anything more quantifiable than overusing the same word.
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