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My best reads of 2019

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

Writing about what I read in the past twelve months has become an annual ritual, part of the seasonal no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve when w...

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HBR exec summaries

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Antony Mayfield

I love this executive summaries section at the end of the paper version of the Harvard Business Review. I don’t know if it has been running for years or just st...

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One of Microsoft’s new CEO’s strengths? He doesn’t finish business books…

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Antony Mayfield / 5 Comments

When Microsoft’s new CEO was announced last week, there was a great deal of commentary about his  – doubtless very carefully crafted – introdu...

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New technology boosts the old

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

As cheerleaders for incumbent media often point out, the old is rarely replaced by the new. Newspapers weren’t killed by radio, radio wasn’t killed ...

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We don’t just read novels, we live them

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

A neuroscience research project suggests that when we read novels we create a connection with the protagonist, a change that is visible in fMRI brain scans and ...

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Tools and distraction

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Antony Mayfield / 1 Comment

Despite having at least four other devices with Kindle apps on them at any given moment at home or work, my reading weapon of choice is the Kindle Paperwhite. I...

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Maria Popova and life as “a reader who writes”

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Antony Mayfield / 2 Comments

When I look at Maria Popova and her work on Brainpickings, I feel admiration, inspiration and a little jealousy. She takes something that is important to me ...

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Why I finish books

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Antony Mayfield / 2 Comments

Living with ebooks, as I have been since I bought my first iPad a few years back, has changed my reading. It’s also given me more ways of understanding ho...

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Hi-fidelity reading

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

The paperback book I am reading right now is The Big Sleep and Other Novels, by Raymond Chandler.  It’s a lovely Penguin Classics imprint, thick and light...

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Holiday reading

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Antony Mayfield / 0 Comment

In case you are looking for some ideas about what to read in the remainder of the summer, here are the books that have tickled my fancy over the summer months. ...

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