In a world inundated with sales books on getting to yes, this audiobook recommends just the opposite, focusing on how increasing your failure rate can greatly accelerate your movement toward ultimate success. Go for No! chronicles four days in the life of fictional character Eric Bratton, a call-reluctant copier salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself in a strange house with no idea of how he got there. But this house doesn't belong to just anyone! It belongs to him…a wildly successful, 10-years-in-the-future version of the person he could become if he learns to overcome his self-limiting beliefs and overcome his fear of failure.

Imagine if every single month, I gave you something like the “Sticky Note” hack — a brand new strategy or tactic you can implement immediately, and use to stuff your phone book full of hot girls’ numbers, schedule more dates that you could ever possibly have time for, and build an abundant dating life in no time flat, from scratch.

An architect's job is to reduce complexity, not increase it. Yet the developer life is filled with jargon, acronyms, and seemingly infinite choices. So how do we know when complexity makes sense? This course discusses when abstractions are justified and outlines the merits of various approaches for structuring applications with a pragmatic, real-world mind set. The discussion begins by outlining philosophies for thinking about architecture and considering the benefits of doing the simplest thing that could possibly work. Then we dive into various design patterns and technologies to consider within the business, service, presentation and data access layers.

In this course you will learn about personal branding and how it applies to you. We will go over personal branding basics and foundations. We will learn about different tools and platforms to create, enhance and share your personal brand. We will talk about how to empower others to talk about you the right way so you can enjoy the power of "word of mouth" marketing. We will dive into examples of how people have used some of these tools and tactics for their own personal brands. This course is designed to give you empowerment as an employee, business owner, and leader, and be in a position to give more to your network and your job.

In sumptuous and illuminating detail Simon Winchester chronicles the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who turned his eccentric genius on the study of China. In 1937 Joseph Needham fell in love with a visiting Chinese student. He soon became fascinated by China, and his mistress persuaded him to travel to her home country. Thus began his undying passion for the world’s most populous nation.