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My friend G.L. Hoffman sent this to me:

I just want to add that I knocked my wife up on the first try, in case any of my neighbors are reading this . . .

Full disclosure: I got a free advance copy of this book because I know the author, G.L. Hoffman.

The books I’ve read on business and career advice fall into three main categories:

1. Academic theory
2. (Quoting Dogbert) A bunch of obvious advice packaged with quotes from famous dead people
3. A person who’s actually done something talks about what worked for them and what didn’t.

Dig Your Job is in Category 3, like every other book I can think of to recommend to people.

It’s a high-density book. Hoffman has done startups for 25 years and shares hundreds of ideas and observations about the workplace in blog-sized chunks.

The style is conversational, easy to read — like having a career mentor you can consult whenever you want to.

Hoffman is currently running excerpts from the book on his blog, so you can click over there for a free preview.

Highly recommended!

My friend G.L. Hoffman has a great post over at U.S. News and World Report called “The One-Sentence Motivator.” His own one-sentence motivator (spoiler alert) is “Be the man you dreamed you could be when you were a little boy.”

Here’s mine:

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

— Albert Camus

It’s not as heartwarming as the little boy one but it gets me out of bed in the morning . . .