Editing The Pen Addict 17/transcript (section)

== Books ==


'''Mike Rohde:''' That would be great. And I was going to mention, too, there's two books that came about because of reworking. There's one that's released now and one coming in August. The first is The $100 Startup by Chris Gullabo, which is in a way sort of an extension of where reworking sort of talked about the principles that 37 Signals followed. Chris took a bunch of people and he interviewed how they got their businesses started and then he produced this book that shows really practical ways to start a business with $100 in your pocket and just bootstrapping it, which I think, Myke, you can certainly relate to. And I think Brad as well. And I think a lot of people listening might be interested in checking that out. And so we did illustrations for that. And then in August, there's a book called The Little Book of Talent, which is by Daniel Coyle. He wrote a book two years ago called The Talent Code, which is this idea that people are not born talented. They actually, some people just do better jobs training and working those muscles and skills by the way they train. And so he went around and found all the principles that all these talent hotbeds were producing great tennis players or singers or what have you and found that there were principles that they all followed. And so he wrote a book in 2009. And this little one, Little Book of Talent, is like a reference book you throw in your bag and it's got 52 rules to help you remember how to improve your talent. So that's coming on August 21st.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, those type of books are right up my alley. I've been looking at the $100 startup for a while. I need to get that. It looks really interesting.

'''Mike Rohde:''' Yeah, it's pretty interesting. It's a lot of interesting stuff, especially if you're thinking about, even if you're just thinking of starting a side business for extra money, I think he's got some really practical thinking philosophically and practically on how to go about that. So well worth it, I think.