Author Archives: awalden

Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl was a psychologist who experienced years within a concentration camp. This was my first book seeing the nightmare of concentration camps. Men would be stripped of their clothes, their hair shaved, their families taken away, their life work burned to the…

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Book Review: YES!

This book YES! was a surprisingly great book. From a scientific perspective, it gives us methods that we are persuaded by. The way socially we manage our own ways of influence is extremely interesting.  The book covers many factors of persuasion, all relating…

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Book Review: Tipping Point

Malcom Gladwell develops complex concepts within his simple and clear stories. This is the second book I’ve read from Gladwell, and it was a good read. The Tipping Point discussed three characteristics that cause epidemics: contagiousness/stickiness, how little causes have big effects, and…

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Book Review: Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness

“Are you a snake-oil salesman or a scientist?” This short read takes the scientific approach of social media. It points to the best-practices and asks them to show proof why things are shared. And then it goes deeper into the research-driven results. Just…

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Nine great things from 2011

Turning 30 Bridget and I both celebrated our second annual 29th birthday, which included a countdown, a scavenger hunt of our life, and a surprise party   Exploring Nevada’s Outback With Lisa, we decided to venture east on Highway 50 through Fernley, Fallon, Austin,…

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Northwest House Crawl, Year 3

2011 marked the year that TJ moved into our neighborhood, a few houses down from Rob and me. Well, we knew we had to act quickly for our Northwest house crawl.   This year was going to be a bit more intimate, and…

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An Ironman Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we ventured down to Arizona to enjoy the 75 degree weather in Scottsdale. Oh yeah. Ron was also going to run an iron man.  Nagisa joined us, and we explored the surrounding area. Man, it was nice. Well, we might as…

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Book Review: First, Break All The Rules

A book about understanding the people you manage, this takes the approach that there’s no processed way to become a productive manager. As many know, the relationship people have with their direct manager affects how long they stay at the company and their…

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Book Review: Human Technology – A Toolkit for Authentic Living

I have no idea how this book found it’s way into our library. I may have picked it up for free at some point. But it stared at me in our closet, asking me if today it was to fulfill it’s purpose. So,…

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Book Review: Hitting the Sweet Spot

This book  was staring at me in my bookcase. I had read this for a class in college, and at the time, I felt that it was a good read. So, I decided to run through it once again: – 1+1 = 3 Consuming…

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