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Brian Holley

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Brian Holley's books

Review of "Summary and Detail Review of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Very quick read full of good ideas, but short on practical steps to achieve the goal they're searching for. Many of the ideas they espouse seem like great ways to reduce stress and hopefully make more of your time at work, but often the path from where your company or team is to their goal feels almost insurmountable and sometimes like you'd need to be the CEO just to enact that sort of change.

To some extent, the entire book felt a little like an extended recruiting pitch for Basecamp (the author's company).

John Bunyan: Pilgrims Progress (Moody Classics) (Paperback, 1941, Moody Publishers) 3 stars

Bunyan's allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual …

Review of 'Pilgrims Progress (Moody Classics)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Fantastic collection of stories

This is a fantastic collection of short stories from a set of incredibly talented authors. They manage to build incredibly vivid and interesting worlds in such a short time and draw you in to tell their stories. Not a bad one in the bunch.