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Gordon’s 2019 Year in Books
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Gordon Jack
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The Boomerang Effect
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2016
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4 editions
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Your Own Worst Enemy
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2018
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4 editions
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“Just last month, he was the social pariah after he told his father we used a thousand-dollar bottle of wine to make sangria popsicles.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
“The envelope was embossed with the logo of my father’s law firm—Barry, Yu & Singh, an appropriate name for a ruthless pack of attorneys. Walter Yu was actually senior partner, but he settled for second billing so that the firm’s name would evoke fear in opposing counsel.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
“I thought I was taking a boring piece of paper and making it look cool, when in fact, I was taking something cool and making it flat and generic. It was the complicated and imperfect folds that made people interesting. The last thing we should be doing is trying to iron them out.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
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