What are we reading these days?
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Book Readers and Book Clubs
"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."
What books have you been reading this month? Any recommendations we need to pick up? Let's hear it!
Professional
- [In Progress] - Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
- Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business by Donald Miller
- Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact by Phil Jones
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
For Fun
- [In Progress] - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
- [In Progress] - Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius by Bill Pennington
- Saturn's Monsters by Thomas Carpenter
- Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein by Brian Greene
- The Quest for the Diamond Sword by Winter Morgan
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