[PDF] Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success

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summary Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success review ð 103 Mmon wisdom about success revealing how conventions like paying dues prevent progress why kids shouldn't learn times tables and how paradoxically it's easier to build a huge business than a small oneFrom SpaceX to The Cuban Revolution from Ferrari to Skrillex Smartcuts is a narrative adventure that busts old myths about success and shows how innovators and icons do the incredible by working smarter and how perhaps the rest of us can t. The stories were nice but I couldn t get anything actionable or new insights out of them A Shadow of Treason Chronicles of the Spanish Civil War revealing how conventions like paying dues prevent progress why kids shouldn't learn times tables and how paradoxically it's easier to build a huge business than a small oneFrom SpaceX to The Cuban Revolution from Ferrari to Skrillex Smartcuts is a narrative adventure that busts old myths about success and shows how innovators and icons do the incredible by working smarter and how perhaps the Sing Unburied Sing rest of us can t. The stories were nice but I couldn t get anything actionable or new insights out of them

summary Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success

summary Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success review ð 103 Entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow Wired Fast Company The New Yorker and cofounder of Contently analyzes the lives of people and companies that do incredible things in implausibly short timeHow do some startups go from zero to billions in mere months How did Alexander the Great YouTube tycoon Michelle Phan and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon climb to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a promotion What do high grow. This is an easy book It s easy to read and it was likely easy to write There s nothing challenging about it and while it would be difficult to fundamentally disagree with anything it it beyond some uestionable metaphors and the constant use of the omg drastic subject change cliffhanger before I answer the uestion I just asked writing tactic there were only a small handful of half thoughts in the entire book that actually made me think about something new or think about something old in a new wayIt s a book that kinda sorta makes you feel like you re learning and developing yourself but it s really just the same as cooking shows it activates mirror neurons that make you feel good while really just filling time and falsely inflating one s sense of accomplishmentOn a personal note I m tiring of this sub genre of productivityself helpcurrent culture books written by non experts that all seem to re package the same insight Get a mentor Get active robust feedback Simplify Be nice to people These aren t Smartcuts they re pillars of the extremely common and accepted current school of thought about how to succeed They aren t books that have been painstakingly researched or draw from a wealth of experience of which there are plenty See The Innovator s Dilemma Thinking Fast and Slow The Lean Startup The Shallows They re books by people who ve learned how to extrapolate whatever they want from whatever subject matter is at hand without breaking a sweat think the college essays you wrote the night before they were due and can write in a snappy style that s easy to keep reading They re book long Fast Company or Buzzfeed articles Worthwhile nuggets here and there but overall fluffSpeaking a little generously I actually do think Snow could be a decent writer and that had he had the benefit of a really good book editor who challenged him to make complex arguments the book might have actually been worth the time and not nearly so annoying Smoke and Mirrors Short Fiction and Illusions read and it was likely easy to write There s nothing challenging about it and while it would be difficult to fundamentally disagree with anything it it beyond some uestionable metaphors and the constant use of the omg drastic subject change cliffhanger before I answer the uestion I just asked writing tactic there were only a small handful of half thoughts in the entire book that actually made me think about something new or think about something old in a new wayIt s a book that kinda sorta makes you feel like you Court of Twilight Forbidden Magic Book 3 re learning and developing yourself but it s Double Persephone really just the same as cooking shows it activates mirror neurons that make you feel good while The Paralegal Professional really just filling time and falsely inflating one s sense of accomplishmentOn a personal note I m tiring of this sub genre of productivityself helpcurrent culture books written by non experts that all seem to The Black Velvet Gown re package the same insight Get a mentor Get active Kitsune Matsuri The Open Gateway robust feedback Simplify Be nice to people These aren t Smartcuts they دیوان بلخ re pillars of the extremely common and accepted current school of thought about how to succeed They aren t books that have been painstakingly 100 Reasons to Panic About Getting Married researched or draw from a wealth of experience of which there are plenty See The Innovator s Dilemma Thinking Fast and Slow The Lean Startup The Shallows They Selena Gomez Natural Star re books by people who ve learned how to extrapolate whatever they want from whatever subject matter is at hand without breaking a sweat think the college essays you wrote the night before they were due and can write in a snappy style that s easy to keep The Artful Avocado A Delightful and Definitive Handbook for the Gardner with an Indoor Specialty reading They Strategy Concepts of Bill Belichick re book long Fast Company or Buzzfeed articles Worthwhile nuggets here and there but overall fluffSpeaking a little generously I actually do think Snow could be a decent writer and that had he had the benefit of a Athletic Shorts Six Short Stories really good book editor who challenged him to make complex arguments the book might have actually been worth the time and not nearly so annoying

summary Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success Smartcuts How Hackers Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success review ð 103 Th businesses world class heart surgeons and underdog marketers do in common to beat the normOne way or another they do it like computer hackers They employ what psychologists call lateral thinking to rethink convention and break rules that aren't rulesThese are not shortcuts which produce often dubious short term gains but ethical smartcuts that eliminate unnecessary effort and yield sustainable momentum In Smartcuts Snow shatters co. This was an easy to read book with a number of very interesting stories The principles and applications espoused were hard to find anything to disagree with certainly nothing revolutionary here This would likely be a 4 star book but it read very much like a series of clickbait articles all making use of the Gladwellesue This is the reason why we think fascinating account X happened BUT actually it s not that at all that grew old pretty fast Still despite these minor uibbles this is a fun book chock full of interesting stories though somewhat iffy applications and solid principles for those interested in business entrepreneurship and career advancement strategies