The Reading List – Week 1 (reboot)

Back when phones were mostly signal and little noise

So my first attempt at the reading list was not much of a success, but I will be trying again. It may not be every week, but I will keep a post open so that I can point you to the articles that I have sifted through and think are worth a read.

There is so much noise, I am hoping to make these posts all about the signal.

Dealing with difficult people: I looked at the title of this post and thought, “awesome, I need this right now”, thinking it would give me a list of things that I can do to deal.  All it talks about is that you can’t change people, and you have to be the maker of change.  So if there are difficult people in your life you either have to change something about your self or get out of the situation.

How to Destroy your Blog: Expect to see more and more links to this site.  I only found them a few months ago, and a good 60% of the posts have been awesome.  That doesn’t mean that the other 40% is shit, just that are not interesting to me at this point in time.  They have been added to the list of sites that I go to directly on a frequent basis.

Finding Ideas: I have struggled with this at times, but like CopyBlogger says, get writing and reading.  The ideas are all out there for you to steal.

Degaussing Warships: Nothing to do with webmastering, simply my engineering geek coming through.

I’m writing an E-Book

Launch of Discovery/STS-133 No.3, remote camera

As my latest foray into the Making Money Online space is a marathon rather than a sprint I have been focusing on a couple of sites that fit my daytime (and night time lately) career to a tea.  Part of this is writing an Ebook for managers in this techincal space make heads and tails out of what the engineers are saying.

While have about 50% of the draft finished I started to think about how I am going to launch this book, its coming in Q1 2012, successfully, and came across these 5 Tips for Launching a Ebook, and what struck me initially was the fact that her site was clean and the post well written.  That is more than enough to make me listen, you see too much noise these days.

My favorite tip is #3:

Hire someone to help you. I never thought I’d do this; I like everything to be just so, so I prefer to do everything myself.

This is going to be a hard one for me because that even though I know that it makes more sense to hire someone to do something that I am not good at, I am a consultant by trade after all, but I still would rather learn the trade than hand the reins to someone else.
I think this is one of the traits that makes a successful consultant, but a disastrous publisher.

What do you think of her tips?  Have any of your own?  I will let you know how our launch goes this Winter.

Cheers,

Jeff M

Reading List: Week 1


Every week I will post the better articles that I have come across while doing research, surfing, or otherwise wasting time.