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Rick Rubin's The Creative Act Is a Devotional Disguised as a Book About Creativity
Rick Rubin's The Creative Act Is a Devotional Disguised as a Book About Creativity

The Creative Act reads more like scripture than instruction manual, offering genuine wisdom about the creative process buried beneath layers of ethereal platitudes that will either feel profound or frustratingly shallow depending on where you are in your own creative journey.

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Daniel Coyle's The Culture Code Tells You Everything About the Leaders and Nothing About the Led
Daniel Coyle's The Culture Code Tells You Everything About the Leaders and Nothing About the Led

A compelling, accessible argument for why the best teams feel safe before they feel smart, wrapped in storytelling so smooth it occasionally slides right past the hard questions.

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Cal Newport's Slow Productivity Gets the Diagnosis Right and the Prescription Wrong
Cal Newport's Slow Productivity Gets the Diagnosis Right and the Prescription Wrong

A well-crafted, deeply researched argument for a better way to work that stumbles on the gap between its idealism and the world most of us live in.

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Chris Linsell is a writer, strategist, and industry commentator with more than a decade inside residential real estate. He serves as Chief Marketing Officer at The Mitten Group, a Michigan-based brokerage, and publishes The Playbook, a professional development resource for working agents.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Bankrate, and he has spoken on national stages on marketing, leadership, and the future of the industry. Before The Mitten Group, he served as Director of Content at Luxury Presence and as Senior Writer and Editorial Strategist at The Close.