My three biggest mistakes at work and what I learned
One of my biggest pet peeves is having others cite some of my mistakes or failures in the past to use as arguments against why …
How to be lucky and find a great job (or how I got into management consulting)
I’m currently a management consultant for EY and was previously a management consultant at Deloitte. Before that, I was working at the Government of Alberta …
Summary of The Better Man Project by Bill Phillips
I was walking around in the library looking for Man 2.0 and found this on the same shelf – the tag line is 2,476 tips …
Review: Get Sh*t Done – Startup Vitamins
Get Sh*t Done is a book that I saw in my local library as I was browsing books. It’s a small book and it occurred …
Books I’m reading now
As you can probably tell, I am a voracious reader. I try to read on average a book a week and sometimes I do a …
Book review: How to fail at almost everything and still win big
I had previously read The Dilbert Principle from the same author, Scott Adams, and for some reason, I thought that this book would be in …
Book review: Deep Work by Cal Newport
Rules for focused success in a distracted world – this is the tagline of the book. Ironically, I had seen this book and skimmed it …
Book review: Think like a freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The tagline for this book is “the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain our brain”. I am a big Freakonomics fan – I remember hearing …
Book review: The Ruler’s Guide by Chinghua Tang
From time to time, I review the new titles that come in from the Edmonton Public Library and put holds on books that seem interesting …
Review and thoughts on Born for this by Chris Guillebeau
I first learned about Chris Guillebeau from another one his of books called “The $100 startup” and then started to read a few more of …