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What’s Your Ten-Point Manifesto?

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Lists of manifestos. I love a good manifesto. I love Bob Sutton’s manifesto about work, and Madame X’s manifesto about money, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s manifesto for his apprentices. Somehow, I’d never come across Google’s Ten things we know to be true manifesto, and I found it …


Frank Lloyd Wright’s 10-Point Manifesto for His Apprentices.

Every Wednesday is Tip Day — or List Day. This Wednesday: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Manifesto for His Apprentices. I love personal manifestos — for instance, on the home pages of their blogs, Bob Sutton includes his 17 Things I Believe about work and Madame X lists My Rules about money. I recently read Frank Lloyd Wright’s Autobiography — a very …


10 “Rules of Life” from Tolstoy. What Are Your Rules?

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day. This Wednesday: 10 “Rules of Life” from Tolstoy. I have a love/hate relationship with Tolstoy. I love his fiction, and for that reason keep feeling compelled to learn more about his life, but then am driven away by his faults. I should stay away from Tolstoy biographies and just read his novels. …