A few days back, I was flat­tered to have Dave Pol­lard ask me to read his new book, Find­ing the Sweet Spot: The Nat­ural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Respon­si­ble, Sus­tain­able, Joy­ful work.

My review copy came today because of a mixup down at the Post Office, but I’ve had access to an ear­lier online ver­sion for a few days and looked that through in some detail. Here’s the sim­plest thing I can pos­si­bly say about it:

It’s an act of high hubris to ask a vit­ri­olic critic of print pub­lish­ing, and of pro­fes­sional advice-​​giving, and of mind­less entre­pre­neur­ship to read… what? Your forth­com­ing book. Of advice. For entre­pre­neurs. Unless it’s a good and use­ful book, like this one. No advice can change the world, if you leave it on the shelf. But if you read this you can see the cru­cial threads Dave Pol­lard has woven together. And then maybe you can change the world. Go do that.

You want advice? You want to under­stand things about work, about life, and about some of the real­is­tic, friendly, pur­po­sive lifestyles your habits and prej­u­dices blind you to?

Go get a copy and read it. I don’t do this as a habit, and even when I do most folks regret ask­ing me.

But I’m tired of peo­ple ask­ing me for spe­cific, pre­scrip­tive advice on what to do with their lives. Not because I don’t value their searches, but… come on, people—as if I was any­where near as well-​​spoken and philo­soph­i­cally apt, let alone friendly, as Dave. I’m not. He is.

Go. Get it.