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All Batting All The Time: Ted Williams Teaches Us How To Learn

April 15, 2011
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All Batting All The Time: Ted Williams Teaches Us How To Learn

Baseball legend Ted Williams was one in a million, widely considered the most “gifted” hitter of his time. “I remember watching one of his home runs from the bleachers of Shibe Park,” John Updike wrote in The New Yorker in 1960. “It went over the first baseman’s head and rose meticulously along a straight line and was still rising...

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Book Review: Do It Badly And Ahead Of Time! Three Easy-To-Start Habits That Will Make You Awesome Possum

November 15, 2010
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Book Review: Do It Badly And Ahead Of Time! Three Easy-To-Start Habits That Will Make You Awesome Possum

It’s a book. It’s good. Let me tell you why . Title/Author/Info 「前倒し」仕事術! ムリなく始められる、3つの習慣 中井 紀之 (著) Do It Badly And Ahead Of Time! Three Easy-To-Start Habits That Will Make You Awesome Possum Noriyuki NAKAI Language: Japanese Veracity: Non-fiction Furigana: No Genre: Business book Pros Cons Simple ideas but expressed in an insightful way that feels really fresh Clear...

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Book Review / 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who Think Too Much

September 27, 2010
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Book Review / 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who Think Too Much

Cult? AJATT. AJATT? Books. Books? Today’s book: 1-Minute Email-Fu. A book that will quite literally turn you into the shogun of Harlem. Or at least of Japanese business email. Anyway, 問答無用!No more preliminary jibber-jabber! Let’s get right to it! Title/Author/Info Pros Cons 考えすぎて書けない人のための1分間メール術 神垣あゆみ (著) 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who...

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Book Review: Brain Rules / 12 Principles for Pwning with Your Brain

August 12, 2010
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Book Review: Brain Rules / 12 Principles for Pwning with Your Brain

The books is called Brain Rules, the reader is called Khatzumoto and the innocent bystander in all this is you! Let the opinionating begin… Title ブレイン・ルール / Brain Rules Author ジョン=メディナ / John MEDINA Language Japanese (translation of an English-language book) Fiction/Non-fiction Non-fiction Other Info The book has a really cool companion website Pros Clear, level-headed, while also optimistic....

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Ululation! QRG The Movie Is Here!

November 20, 2009
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Ululation! QRG The Movie Is Here!

The QRG video has arrived! The QRG video, nicknamed “QRG: The Movie” is a video supplement to the best-selling ebook of similar name — the quick-start, action-oriented, no-nonsense AJATT Quick Reference Guide (QRG). As is the custom here at AJATT, let me be the very first to tell you precisely and in no uncertain words: Why You Don’t Need...

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QRG: Your Suggestions Wanted! I Mean, Humbly Requested!

June 9, 2009
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Hey everyone. All this consulting and FAQing and emailing and commenting have taught me a thing or two. A lot of people have a lot of questions, particularly fine, detailed, low-level questions. My personal preference up until now has been to write at a more abstract level, both in order to stay more universal and also in order to...

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