Articles in category 'Review'

By Donald Latumahina, April 19, 2008

I’m always eager know how influence works. What are the things that make us say “yes”? How do we comply with a request? There are two reasons why this topic is interesting to me:

I want to be able to increase my influence.
I want to avoid being exploited by ill-intentioned people.

As it turned out, the [...]

By Donald Latumahina, March 28, 2008

If you want to succeed, you need people to remember and act on your ideas. For instance, if you are a leader, you want people to catch your vision. If you are a speaker, you want your audience to internalize your speech. If you are a writer, you want your readers to resonate with your [...]

By Donald Latumahina, March 14, 2008

Scott H Young, a fellow PBN blogger, just released an e-book entitled Learn More, Study Less. This e-book talks about how to learn as much as possible with the least effort to study. Since I consider myself a learner, I’m very interested to the topic of this e-book. I started reading it soon after I [...]

By Donald Latumahina, February 29, 2008

I’ve been blogging for one and a half years, but I never read a book on writing to improve my writing. That’s why in the beginning of this year I decided to do so. From what I found around the Internet, there are two books that are widely recommended on writing: The Elements of Style [...]

By Donald Latumahina, February 22, 2008

A few months after releasing his first e-book, Leo Babauta from Zen Habits released his second e-book entitled Zen Habits Handbook for Life: Hundreds of Tips for Simplicity, Happiness, Productivity. I received a review copy in my inbox in the morning and read it on the evening after I came back from work.
This 76-page e-book [...]