PageBreak Podcast | A book review podcast for designers, freelancers, and other nerds

Pagebreak is an audio podcast hosted by Liz Andrade and Niki Brown. Join us every Tuesday for a discussion on books (in our monthly 20 - 50 minute Book Shows) or blog posts (in our weekly 5 - 20 minute Snippets) that pertain to Freelance, Design, Development, Marketing and other such things.

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Episode 4: Speak Human

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You can listen to the show here, but we’d love for everyone to subscribe to the show in iTunes! Don’t forget to leave feedback and thanks for listening! :)

It’s Episode #4 and we read Speak Human: Outmarket the Big Guys by Getting Personal by Erik Karjaluoto.

Random shout outs to Renee Swigert (@RibbonsofRed) and Von Glitschka(@Vonster.)

Von, if you weren’t a geek in high school — we apologize! :)

Tangents on Supreme Court rulings, Happy hour cocktail specials, The Library of Congress archiving Tweets and Tattoos. (Leave a comment and let Niki know what you think of her getting a plaid tattoo!)

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Videos from Eric Karjaluoto’s

Niki and I will not be releasing a Snippet this week. Here in the United States we are gearing up to celebrate Thanksgiving, which means both of need ample time to stretch out stomachs for the bounty of grub that is about to invade our gullets! (Plus we need to finish reading “Speak Human”!)

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Episode 2: Ignore Everybody

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You can listen to the show here, but we’d love for everyone to subscribe to the show in iTunes! Don’t forget to leave feedback and thanks for listening! :)
Well, we did it again! It’s Episode 2 and our book is Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod. You can learn more about the author by checking out his blog at gapingvoid.com.

We didn’t stick to the quote by quote format like last time — but talk about creativity and what “art” and “failure” really mean… what we love about design, Hugh Macleod’s theory or “Sex & Cash” and who is a bigger kitty cat; Computer or Garamond?

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Episode 1: Rework

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You can listen to the show here, but we’d love for everyone to subscribe to the show in iTunes, thanks for listening! :)

It’s our first shot at podcasting and we’re talking about “Rework” by 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Niki was really good with calling out the page numbers on quotes she referenced, but not-so-much for me, so here are all the quotations we pulled and their page numbers for you…

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