Comments on: Who Won The Six Books? What Personal Productivity / Development Books Were Recommended?

By: PT

PT — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:47:08 +0000

Trent,

The book (RDPD) arrived a few weeks back…finally got around to reading it today. I had read snippits of it before, but hadn’t tackled the full 175 pages…primarily b/c of all the negative I’ve heard about it. I knew if I requested it for this contest I would get it, and thus, wouldn’t have to pay for a book that I assumed wasn’t going to be worth the read.

Well, I did enjoy the book. It was inspirational. However, like you, I think it falls short on practical advice, with a few exceptions. After reading it I went back and read your review of the book. Excellent!

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sending the book. All the best.

By: lorax

lorax — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:28:57 +0000

I really do like these book reviews. I’ve probably mentioned these before, but my suggestions are:
Unconventional Success
Fooled by Randomness
Irrational Exuberance

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 09 May 2007 05:21:27 +0000

My post was located in the Economics of Speeding
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/04/23/the-economics-of-speeding-or-how-i-got-a-ticket-this-morning/

By: plonkee

plonkee — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:41:33 +0000

trent, is there any possibility of posting the other responses that made up the entries to your blog? Or are they already up somewhere that I haven’t seen?

By: ispf

ispf — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:54:51 +0000

Trent: Thanks for the chance to share your 6th month anniversary with you through the giveaway. I enjoy reading your blog, and here’s to many more years of blogging!

Dariaclone: If you are interested, you can find my post for the Giveaway #4 titled “5 Of the Most Inspiring Posts from ‘The Simple Dollar’” at http://gradmoneymatters.com/2007/04/5-of-most-inspiring-posts-from-simple.html

By: Trent

Trent — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:36:47 +0000

dariaclone: the site is popular enough that if I put on a “recent comments” sidebar item, the site would get quite slow. It gets slow on occasion as it is.

By: dariaclone

dariaclone — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:35:10 +0000

Oh, and I forgot to add–the contests are great. Thanks!

By: dariaclone

dariaclone — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:34:40 +0000

A suggestion from a non-blogger (so I have no idea how difficult these things are, although I can guess that it is annoying to have random people make suggestions), but Giveaway #4 might have been a little more interesting if you had a “recent comment” module running. I’m curious what articles people posted on and what all they had to say.