Book Reviews

Kevin Kelly is the cofounder and Senior Maverick of Wired Magazine. Founding member of The Long Now Foundation (which focuses in fostering long-term thinking and long-term responsibility). Nomadic photojournalist, publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog, and author of several books like What Technology Wants (2010), and often-cited inspiring articles like 1,000 True Fans. Kevin Kelly has an impressive ability to think out of the box and analyze the implications of technology from different angles. Read more...

Marshall Goldsmith is a world-renowned business author, educator, and coach. He’s considered by Thinkers50 the most influential leadership thinker and coach. Forbes considers him one of the five most respected executive coaches. Triggers is a superbly written book. Besides proposing the methods needed to achieve meaningful and lasting behavioral change, Goldsmith shares great, powerful stories from his professional practice to exemplify his points. I enjoyed reading this book for the first time, and then a second time to write this review. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Even if some factors that lead people to be successful could be attributed to sheer luck, a common trait is that successful people create things. In Norris’ vision, creating something –that is, being creative– has little to do with wild talent and is more about productivity. The first requisite for being creative is to start to do something. In his book The War of Art, Steven Pressfield writes about The Resistance, the voice that delays us from doing our work, the self-sabotaging habits of procrastination, self-doubt, susceptibility to distraction, perfectionism, and shallowness. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Solo una cosa: Enfócate en lo único (The One Thing), por Gary Keller, es uno de mis libros favoritos. Keller propone un marco mental aterrizado para lograr resultados extraordinarios tanto en el trabajo como en la vida personal. La premisa del autor es que los resultados extraordinarios vienen determinados, directamente, por lo enfocados que logremos ser. Más concretamente, por nuestra capacidad de enfocarnos en lo esencial, en lo que llama lo Único. Read more...

Buy from Amazon The One Thing by Gary Keller is one of my favorite books because it offers a down-to-earth framework for achieving extraordinary results in work and in life in general. The author’s premise is that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus, or more precisely, by your ability to focus on what he calls the One Thing. I strongly agree with most of what the author proposes. Read more...