Building Books, Beans & Things
Why We Are Making The One Thing Companion
A useful notebook should not help us capture more. It should help us decide what deserves to continue.
Follow this trail →Discoveries
This is where curiosity leaves a trail.
Books are here. Coffee is here. So are tools, conversations, experiences, questions, places, and things that are difficult to categorize. They have one thing in common: something made them worth another look.
The BBT recommendation philosophy
Recommendations are Earned.
A product link should be the consequence of a useful recommendation, not the reason the content exists. In other words, carrying something means something.
Follow this trail →The BBT philosophy
Why Books, Beans & Things Exists
The internet does not need more things to consume nearly as much as we need better ways to benefit from what deserves our attention.
Follow this trail →The visual philosophy behind Books, Beans & Things
What Made You Stop?
Attention often begins before explanation: something makes us stop.
Follow this trail →A recurring pattern across leadership and conversation books
Sometimes the Best Next Step Is a Person
An idea can deepen when it moves from private reflection into a conversation with the right person.
Follow this trail →The BBT Companion development process
Not Every Good Idea Needs to Become an Assignment
Benefit does not always mean action. Sometimes the right response is understanding, appreciation, a better question, or simply remembering.
Follow this trail →Why Don't We Listen Better? + The Six Conversations
Listen Long Enough to Be Changed
Listening is not only something we do for another person. Genuine listening gives their experience a chance to alter our own understanding.
Follow this trail →A cluster of books about questions and listening
A Conversation Does Not Have to End in Agreement to Move Us Forward
A good conversation can be successful because understanding increased—even when agreement did not.
Follow this trail →Leading on Empty
Experience Does Not Automatically Make Us Wiser
Experience gives us material. Reflection is what can turn that material into insight.
Follow this trail →A repeated idea across leadership books
Hold Tightly. Hold Loosely.
The freedom to change wisely begins by knowing what must not change.
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