One of the main benefits of an abridged book — whether in print or in audio format — is to make the book accessible to younger readers. I'm reminded of the collection of Great Illustrated Classics that introduced me to classic books likeThe Red Badge of Courage,The Count of Monte Cristo...
THERE is an astonishing amount of information upon a variety of subjects in this book. The volume is, in fact, a kind of “Enquire Within for Everything,” but with this difference—matters of fact are, perhaps, less frequent than matters of opinion. The introduction of this personal elemen...
From one of the most influential books ever written on Zen Buddhism: A fascinating study of this ancient discipline.One of the leading twentieth-century works on Zen, D.T. Suzuki's Zen and Japanese Culture is an invaluable source for those wishing to understand Zen concepts in the context ...
'Snollygoster', a word for "an unprincipled but shrewd person," might derive from the word 'snallygaster', which is used to describe a mythical creature from rural Maryland that is half reptile and half bird. But 'snallygaster' appears in print after 'snollygoster'. The word seems to ...
On Moving to a New Social Media World, Abridged 31/03 2023 This is the short, tl;dr version of this, for people whose lives are too short, who are living close to the edge of existence and who don’t have time for flowery prose. I’ve stripped out all the funny bits and also th...
Today it is less of a movement and more of a tendency or approach within the whole field of self- development. In the early days, one man was the pioneer of this way of looking at the world: Abraham Maslow. He was an academic psychologist who later became president of the American ...
For many people, their first exposure to the word “allegory” is in Plato's “Allegory of the Cave.” If you take the story at (extremely abridged) face value, it's about people chained in a cave who believe reality is the shadows projected onto the cave walls, and when one of them...
This is an abridged version of a thread (and a three-way phone call) that took up an entire evening. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT 7. The Shock Of Figuring Out The Cost Of Moving All Your Current StuffThere's a reason Refinery29's "offtopic" email listserv is constantly flooded with listings...
This post is an abridged excerpt of Chapter 5, “Productive Data Engineering Teams,” from Jesse Anderson’s book, “Data Engineering Teams.” You can get your free copy of thebook here. Read “Data engineering: A quick and simple definition” for a basic overview of data engineering and ...
An abridged version of this post can be found on theAccenture Careers blog. Standing in the café located in Accenture’s Chicago Digital Hub, I was scanning an email on my phone. It described what Accenture experts consider their secret sauce for finding and growing talent. To summarize: ...