How To Maximize Personal Development By Instantly Stopping Mental Spam
Mental spam is just what it sounds like. It's the true creator of most, if not all, mental clutter and negative thoughts. You see, when you deal with it on a regular basis (i.e., every day), your brain stops recognizing it as unwanted and instead begins to accept that this garbage should be there in the first place.… Read the full article here.
-Psychology Today
Today, I'm discussing email.
-Grammar Girl
The great thing about "spam" is that you can use it any time you need a contraction. Want to say "long-winded"? Just put in "Spam." (Likewise, if you want to say something is stupid, go with something as straightforward as possible—say, "Duh!") And don't forget the possessive spammers. ("Spam's" is a real word,… Read the full article here.
-Merriam-Webster
But for now, at the moment of this writing … at this precise moment when my cursor rests below these words, … at this very instant of time … there are no messages in my inbox. Not one. No spam. No legitimate e-mails either. Read the full article here.
-Manning Publications
The message of this terrific book is that if we can understand where and how our brains fall short, we can avoid being fooled by our own minds and make better decisions in business and in life because of it.
-Amazon.com
"A fascinating tale of one man's rise to power. … Sorkin combines a rollicking, literary style with sound research and impeccable reporting." —The New York Times Book Review
"Steve Jobs is a masterful storyteller, an insightful business thinker and an innovative visionary whose accomplishments are comparable to those of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford or Steve Wozniak." -New York Times Book Review
"Jobs is a captivating, richly layered character … who makes for wonderful reading. … Sorkin makes Jobs come alive with his use of narrative, dialogue and insider details." —Newsday
"[A]n inspiring yet heartbreaking story … Jobs is as sharp, funny, self-contained and mercurial as a character out of The Great Gatsby." —The New Yorker
"Jobs's massive charisma is extraordinary…. This is a wonderfully entertaining book to read." -Huffington Post
"Endlessly entertaining…." -Wall Street Journal
"Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Isaacson (author of Einstein: His Life and Universe) has given us another gem." -The Boston Globe "Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs reads like an epic novel. It's so detailed and thorough that you feel like you are there. And, like in a great novel, we are conflicted about the lead character." -USA Today
"Magisterial." -The Wall Street Journal "Jobs is an irresistible combination of visionary genius and petulant child. The genius part is the most amazing –- he created personal computers and animation, changed the face of music with the iPod and transformed mobile phones with the iPhone. But Jobs was also mercurial, secretive, bullying and a bad manager who treated people badly. … Isaacson shows how Jobs was a product of his times…" Read the full article here .
-The New York Times
"Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is a 'masterpiece' … The book is polished and compelling, with endless insights." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Jobs was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time. … Isaacson provides the details of Jobs' incredible career, from his early days as a Gates & Wozniak computer geek to his 2012 death." -The Washington Post "In Walter Isaacson's masterful biographical portrait, we glimpse the central paradox of Steve Jobs: He was both an iconoclast and an icon, a rebel against corporate America (Apple) whom many employees worshipped at the same time he screamed at them or humiliated them in front of their peers. He was an expert at inspiring and motivating employees, but also an egomaniac who could be cold, harsh and selfish. He was a master of technology and product design, yet he failed to communicate his visions to the outside world. And as two of his three children attest in their own separate memoirs, he was viciously abusive to them as children." -Time Read the full article here .
-The New York Times
"Jobs is the best biography I've read this year." -Business Insider
"Isaacson provides readers with insight into the mind of Jobs and explains his philosophy, actions and decisions. … Isaacson clearly has the full measure of Jobs' philosophies, methods and decisions. His book is a marvel, a 'masterpiece' of exploration into the life, ambitions and genius of one of the century's most influential and innovative leaders." -School Library Journal
"A 'masterpiece' … [It] is the definitive Steve Jobs biography." -The Boston Globe
"Walter Isaacson's new book is a fascinating insight into Jobs, from his early days as a Gates & Wozniak computer geek to his 2012 death." -USA Today Read the full article here .
-NBC News Today
"Jobs was always thinking about how to make people's lives better. He was certainly ahead of his time on some of his ideas, but he was also ahead on many others. Isaacson's biography is a good read for those who want to speculate on what the world would look like had Jobs lived longer." -The New York Times
"Walter Isaacson's Jobs is as much a primer on business and technology as it is a biography of one of its greatest innovators. … An excellent read for business students, [it] will undoubtedly find its way into the curriculum at schools across the country." -School Library Journal
"Jobs' life was an epic adventure … [with] enough intrigue and drama to keep readers intrigued." -TheGlobeandMail.com
"Isaacson brings us into Jobs's world, providing insight on business, technology and design…. [He] has done a remarkable job at making the reader feel like they are sitting across the table from Jobs." -CIO Magazine
-Boston Globe
"Walter Isaacson has masterfully captured all of [Steve Jobs'] complexities, without overly simplifying them or falling into hagiography, in this landmark biography." -Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and board partner at Greylock Partners Read the full article here .
-The Week
"This is a fascinating book about an extraordinary man whose personality and way of working became inextricably woven into the way we now live our lives.
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"Walter Isaacson has written a superbly researched and eminently readable biography of Steve Jobs." -Joyce Carol Oates "Walter Isaacson has captured the essence of Steve Jobs as a powerful force in business and technology." -Thomas P. Foley, Speaker of the House "A masterful biography … The story is dramatic and I found it hard to put the book down." -Wall Street Journal Read more reviews .
Criticism:
As the book was being released on October 23, 2011 it was thought that the introduction might be a potential source for criticism.