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I thought it would be a good idea to read business related things. I started with The E Myth, which is shit, but I finished it anyway since I managed to speed read through half of it on a train and thought: this is going to be easy. From reading Twist of the Wrist 2 I had already thrown out all preconceptions on instruction manuals written for the lowest common denominator since that one actually had some really good information despite the painfully simplistic way said information was presented. Also years ago someone told me that even the worst books have at least one paragraph to redeem them.
Half way through the E-Myth it turns into a weird coming of age novel then goes back to small business for dummies, and if you stick it out to the end you'll find a page that, when you lick it, tastes like hope. Then I want on to Self Reliace, which strangely gets positive reviews. It's not a book, just a pamphlet. I stopped reading when the author made a Matrix movie reference. How to make friends and influence people: a classic apparently. It opens on how everyone wants to get better at dealing with people and how this book can help. I don't care much for people, so I canned that one as well and went back to Chuck Palahniuk, who doesn't know anything about business, but at least he knows how to write. I'm confident there's a Professional No Limit Hold'Em for businesses out there somewhere, and I'd be stoked to find it.
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