Someone totally needs to start a line of books called In a Nutshell books. Books that tell you the essentials of what you want to know, and not one word more.Of course O’Reilly has already done this. Just take a tiny sampling of their titles e.g., MySQL in a Nutshell, Statistics in a Nutshell, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, and you'll readily believe that, worldwide, the elite people for whom these fantastically complete books are valuable would probably fit into one high-rise building.
What I’m talking about is “How you can make it so your life doesn’t suck in a Nutshell”, “Dressing so others don’t cry in a Nutshell” and “Parenting so the neighbors don’t run you out of town in a Nutshell.”
Books like that.
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How about:
Avoiding mass death amongst co-workers by projecting dark emotions onto small, evil stuffed toy that lurks in bottom drawer behind emergency pack of pretzels, in a nutshell (Hereby reduced to I.A.N.)
Potential consequences of touching surprisingly exposed wire with unusually uninsulated screwdriver while saying "I wonder what this is attached to" I.A.N.
Coming up with halfway rational explanations as to why the head of a media operation you may (or may not) work for is so ignorant of the Internet's operations that he has to be helped out by the HR manager who completely misinterprets a basic suggestion as to make what was a Super Hot Contender proposal into a sad, laughable farce. I.N.A.
Not that I am bitter or anything. Well, maybe a little. A bit.
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