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The Cultured Life Blog
BOOK REVIEW “If you spend all day hitting the ball back, you’ll never end up serving”
- taken from The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
BOOK REVIEW “Titles like ‘Baby Mother’ are still thrown around as an insult. It’s why people are still shocked to see young black families sticking together.”
- taken from I am not your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
BOOK REVIEW “In Old Babylon there once lived a certain very rich man named Arkad. Far and wide he was famed for his great wealth. Also he was famed for his liberality […] but nevertheless each year his wealth increased more rapidly than he spent it.”
- taken from The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
BOOK REVIEW “All parents make mistakes, and it is putting these right that matters more than the mistakes themselves.”
“Parental guilt does not help us or own children; acknowledging our errors and making changes does.” - taken from The Book you wish your parents had read (and your children will be glad that you did) by Phillipa Perry
BOOK REVIEW “Deep machine learning, which is using algorithms to replicate human thinking, is predicated on specific values from specific kinds of people- namely, the most powerful institutions in society and those who control them.” - taken from Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
BOOK REVIEW “Parenting courses, like parenting books, are a modern, twentieth-century phenomenon - a sign, perhaps, that the ‘correct’ way of raising children concerns us more than ever. And in particular that we believe that the correct way exists in the first place.” - taken from Second Thoughts: On having and being a Second Child by Lynn Berger.
BOOK REVIEW “Being a multi-hyphenate is about choosing and strategising a plan of attack and having the freedom to take on multiple projects, not being backed into a corner.“ - taken from The Multi-Hyphen Method by Emma Gannon
BOOK REVIEW “Invisible work consists of a person’s personal, private thoughts that relate to their work and which, for many, are the most critical part of what they do and the reason they are paid. It is the heart of creativity and innovation.” - taken from Invisible Work by John Howkins.
BOOK REVIEW “The Year of Yes promise was a commitment. A binding contract between me and my greatest competitor and judge- me.” - taken from Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
BOOK REVIEW “I’m a firm believer that there is no work-life vs. life. There’s one life. And this is our big chance to reset.”
- taken from The Reset: Ideas to change how we work and live by Elizabeth Uviebinené