{"id":1853,"date":"2006-09-20T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/five-books-werereading"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:53:04","slug":"five-books-werereading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/five-books-werereading\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Books We’re Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a couple books we\u2019ve been enjoying, and some quick thoughts about them.<\/p>\n

The Elements of Style<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

I adore this book, from the lovely red hardcover, to the full-color artwork to the text itself. It\u2019s as good a read as it ever was, and much more enjoyable this time around. A great way to improve your online communication, no matter what your job is.<\/p>\n

Naked Conversations<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a good book but somewhat long-winded. I found myself skimming a lot. However, the authors have some great suggestions about blogs, and certainly know their topic. If you run a business, and you\u2019re thinking about starting a blog, this would be a great book for you to read.<\/p>\n

The Long Tail<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book was much-anticipated, written by the editor of Wired magazine, so I had to pick it up. It\u2019s especially helpful if you\u2019re not familiar with the concepts, because they\u2019re important to understand in terms of business in the 21st Century. If you are familiar with the long tail idea already, it\u2019s still pretty good to read, because he goes into a lot more detail, and explores a lot more ideas than I expected.<\/p>\n

The Now Habit<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ironically, this has been on my shelf for a year and I haven\u2019t gotten around to reading it. I\u2019m glad I finally did. Unlike other books in a similar space, such as Getting Things Done, this book doesn\u2019t lay out a very specific plan per se, but spends more time exploring the reasons that we procrastinate, and general ideas for conquering that procrastination.<\/p>\n

Small is the New Big<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seth Godin is always an enjoyable author, but this reads like a bunch of blog entries. Which, basically, it is. That\u2019s okay, though, because I\u2019d much rather read this stuff in print than on a computer screen, and the quality is fairly consistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some great books we’ve been enjoying at Needmore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[536],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/i\/IMG_00091.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}