Introducing the Book Mashup Concept
Since the Kindle has made it very easy for me to digitally extract noted passages, I have decided to try experimenting with a new type of content. In the coming days I will be randomly selecting noteworthy passage from various books and then trying to create a new article based on those concepts. For example I could take the following two passage and combine them into a new article:
“Your future is up to you, not your employer. You have to get better in order for your circumstances to get better, and that must be done on your own time.” - Larry Winget from It’s Called Work for a Reason!
“One, don’t differentiate without a difference. Don’t introduce improvements whose only purpose is to give you an advantage over your competitor without giving your customer a substantial advantage.” - Andy Grove from Only the Paranoid Survive
Larry’s quote could be boiled down to taking responsibility for your future career, and Andy’s quote could be boiled down to focusing on your customer rather than your competitor. Combining these two topics into one article should produce a new article where the main focus is taking responsibility for your future by focusing on your employer and/or customer.
