mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2008 | books, seth, reading, the dip
A good business book is more than a cookbook...
Quoted: If you’re reading for the recipe, and just the recipe, you can get through a business book in just a few minutes. But most people who do that get very little out of the experience. Take a look at the widely divergent reviews for The Dip. The people who ‘got it’ understood that it was a book about getting you to change your perspective and thus your behavior. Those that didn’t were looking for bullet points. They wasted their money.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 28 2007 | seattle, library, reading, architecture
Despite the complaints in this article, I actually find the 10th floor of the Seattle Central Library a better place to read than that in any other library. However, I still prefer coffeeshops -- just because I like background noise.
Quoted: The 10th-floor reading room is quieter, more intimate, and yet more stimulating. Punched into the city skyline like a rhomboid treehouse, it connects startlingly with Seattle's urban energy. That may be a positive environment for the digestion of knowledge here in the 21st century. But once the exhilaration subsides, the truth emerges: The room is badly designed and cheesily detailed. The drab plastic study cubicles fail to resonate with the jazzy character of the building envelope.
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