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13 2025 February

Are Book Blurbs Worth the Effort or a Tradition That “Rewards Connections Over Talent”?

By any measure, I’ve been pretty successful at getting book blurbs across my ten published books. Deepak Chopra. Tony Robbins. Adam Grant. They have all...

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11 2025 February

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Negotiating While Black by Damali Peterman

If you are an avid follower of our Non-Obvious Book Awards program, you might recognize this week’s selection: Negotiating While Black. It was our pick...

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04 2025 February

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Humanize: A Maker’s Guide to Designing Our Cities, by Thomas Heatherwick

Imagine a graphic novel that offers a compelling argument for why our cities can be more than just boring backdrops for daily routines. That’s the...

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30 2025 January

The No Book: An Inside Look at Tim Ferriss’s New Book (and How He Protects His Time)

In case you’re not familiar with author Tim Ferriss, here’s a crazy fact about him: If he’s in a time when he isn’t checking email...

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28 2025 January

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Long History of the Future by Nicole Kobie

Wide-eyed predictions of the future are fun to read, and even more fun to write. Yet for every book that promises to predict the future,...

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24 2025 January

The Library of Lost & Imaginary Books

There are books mentioned within the pages of other books that never existed on their own, but what if they did? That’s the fascinating story...

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21 2025 January

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Brave New Words by Sal Khan

Back in April of 2023, Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) did a TED talk with a timely title: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy)...

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07 2025 January

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Infectious Generosity by Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson knows big ideas. As the head of TED, the global organization behind TED talks and TED X events, he has been witness to...

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12 2024 December

The Non-Obvious Book Awards: 2024 Shortlist and Winners Announcement!

What were the best 15 books of the year in 2024? Join us for this LIVE announcement of the best books of the year curated...

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10 2024 December

The Non-Obvious Books of the Week: The 2024 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist

After considering more than 1000 submissions and hours of reviewing titles, I’m thrilled to share that our latest round of winners for the Non-Obvious Book...

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06 2024 December

The Top 12 Trends from Non-Fiction Books Published in 2024

This week is the first announcement for our annual Non-Obvious Book Awards and we just published our list of the Top 100 books of the year...

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05 2024 December

The Non-Obvious 2024 Holiday Gift Guide + FREE Audio Book: Ideas 10 – 12

This week in my blog posts, I’m following an annual tradition of sharing some ideas for non-obvious gifts this holiday season. These are a combination...

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26 2024 November

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Pretending You Care by Norm Feuti

As we head into a holiday season, the Black Friday deals are already getting published out there and you might be thinking about heading out...

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