Archive for December 1st, 2008

I am featured in a Q&A over on Dan Schawbel’s “Personal Branding Blog.” You can read the post here. The message? You don’t have to spend your life in a cube! There are other options. These days, all of us have to be Brand You — thinking more about our own career paths than the path up any one company’s hierarchy.

I am a total bookworm. Back when I worked at USA Today, I used to help myself regularly to books from the pile of review copies sent to the newspaper. I particularly enjoy business, economics and policy books. Fortunately, these days I get to review such books for various publications. I don’t get paid much for this — far below my usual per-word rate — but on the other hand, I like books so much that I view this is my equivalent of getting paid to watch TV. I mean, I was reading Gina Kolata’s book to review it while I was in labor (we have photos from the hospital proving this). Here are some links to recent reviews:

“All You Need is Help” — review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, City Journal.

“Still Made for You and Me” — review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s This Land is Their Land, City Journal.

“Soft Targets” — review of Stephen Baker’s The Numerati, City Journal

“Choosing Wisely” — review of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler’s Nudge, City Journal.

“Meet the Middle Class Millionaires” — review of Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff’s The Middle Class Millionaire, The American.

“An Apology for Judicial Activism” – review of Clint Bolick’s David’s Hammer, The American.

“Rethinking the Obesity ‘Crisis’” — review of Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin, The American.

“All Play and No Work” — review of Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek, The American.