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When my cousin was born, my MIT educated uncle built a buzzer box with two switches, some lights and a few other controls on it.
It looked like something from a nuclear power plant, not a kid’s toy, but he tossed it into the crib anyway. Terrifying or mysterious, it depends on your perspective.
It presented two options: poke to see what happens or do nothing.
How do computer programmers learn their art? Is there a step-by-step process that guarantees you'll get good? All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box.
They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what happens. They repeat the process until they figure out what works.
That's what happens when you poke -whether it's the market or your customer or what you think about yourself - you solve the puzzle by poking.
This is manifesto is about starting to poke. Starting a project, making a ruckus, taking what feels like a risk.
Poke the Box reminds us that life is a buzzer box. If we want to make things happen, we need to remember to poke.
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Even though it seems short, the book is full of condensed advice and information. After reading it, I became more aware of my own displays of initiative and began noticing when others were taking charge of their affairs -- and more importantly, when they were not.
I read the whole thing on my iPhone, during 3 days' worth of commute. It was a pleasure.
Reviewed by: Horia Dragomir (Timisoara, Romania)
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Seth Godin is the author of ten international bestsellers that have been translated into over 30 languages, and have changed the way people think about marketing and work. His Unleashing the Ideavirus is the most popular ebook ever published, and Purple Cow is the bestselling marketing book of the decade.
His penultimate book, Tribes, is a nationwide bestseller, appearing on the Amazon, New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. It's about the most powerful form of marketing--leadership--and how anyone can now become a leader, creating movements that matter.
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This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called "today's Dostoevsky of crime literature."
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.
A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life.
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I first started being a fan of Michael Connelly after I read his novel, "Nine Dragon's" part of the Harry Bosche series. This novel was not a disappointment at all and was a definite page turner. I could have read it in one sitting if only I had the time. The book is about a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller, who is hired by a man who was accused of assaulting and trying murder a women who was known to be a prostitute. He completely denies these charges and tells a story of how he was set up so that the women could then sue him for damages and win big since he was from a very wealthy family. By the end of the book, Mickey Haller himself is suspected of murder! There are many twists in this novel that keep you very interested throughout the entire book unlike some which you may lose interest midway through. You will not want to put this book down!
Reviewed by: Chris (Boston, MA)
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Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American author of detective novels, notably those featuring Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. Bosch, named after the Dutch painter of the same name, is the protagonist of a series of Connelly's novels. The character is an LAPD detective. The Black Echo, the first book featuring Bosch, won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best First Novel of 1992.
Connelly has written other books outside the Bosch series, including Blood Work, which was made into a 2002 movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In 2006, The Lincoln Lawyer was selected as one of ten books to feature in Richard and Judy's televised book club. Connelly is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a bachelors degree in journalism. In addition to his books, Connelly has written for television.
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