Dean Michael Berris

During the holiday break I asked my wife while we were shopping for gifts to allow me to spend ~900 pesos to buy a book that was on the stands. It was an impulse buy that counted as one of the best Christmas gifts I can get for myself ever. This book by Gary Varynerchuck (of WineLibrary TV fame) about cashing in on your passion is one of the best books I've read in a long time about business. I don't usually read a lot of business books but this one I am glad I read. If you have a few hundred pesos to spend and want to be able to do what you're passionate about and build a business around it, then you should Crush It!

So I've been working on this blog post for a while already and for some reason my well-written and well thought out version of this article basically vanished in between "standby" modes of the computer. I'm writing this one on Google Docs first before copy-pasting the contents into the blog post text area. I just hate losing content just because technology is not smart enough to save it for me. Can someone at Squarespace please fix their rich text editor so that it auto-saves the drafts? Anyway, rant over -- with a newly installed air conditioning unit, my head (and our room) is cooler so I should recover from this minor setback with some renewed vigor. What is this post about? Reading.

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