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2022: My “Year” in Review

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In terms of how I’m structuring this annual review, I decided that I’ll highlight 6 things from each season: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. I’ll be looking back through my journal entries to make sense of this review as well. The book came up again in April. That’ll change in 2023. Mac Studio.

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Book Review: Switch

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Their books are good. This helpful analogy in the book is a nice triad for us to frame how to change and where we may miss a switch. One suggestion from the book is to “shrink the change.” Rather than stop checking Twitter during the day, set up automatic alerts. Book Review changes habits switch'

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Book Review: Smartcuts

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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow is a book that proposes a new best way. Snow wants us to think about better ways to do things, and notes that the ideas in this book aren’t shortcuts. The rest of this book is about becoming good enough to deserve it.” Smartcut 1: Finding Waves.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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His movie reviews. Ebert’s prolific online journaling—at times so poignant and poetic you wondered why he spent decades reviewing movies —was called one of the year’s best blogs by Time magazine in 2010. He was happiest when reading a good book or surrounded by friends and family. His online journal. Insightful.

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Book Review: Give and Take

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Mike offers up book reviews here at Productivityist , and he writes about other things he''s learned at People Smarter Than Me. You can connect with him on Twitter at @MikeDariano. Some givers in Grant’s review of the research were too timid to advocate for themselves. Overall, I enjoyed Grant’s book.

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Book Review: The Up Side of Down

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The following review is written by Mike Dariano. Mike offers up book reviews here at Productivityist , and he writes about other things he''s learned at People Smarter Than Me. You can connect with him on Twitter at @MikeDariano. In the book McArdle constructs a landscape about failure in the United States.

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Book Review: The Five Elements of Effective Thinking

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The following review is written by Mike Dariano. Mike offers up book reviews here at Productivityist , and he writes about other things he''s learned at People Smarter Than Me. You can connect with him on Twitter at @MikeDariano. But as the book went on, I realized that the size is its strength rather than weakness.

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