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Scott J. Pearson

@scottjpearson

Translational Researcher. #BookReview #Writer Husband Dad #Mentor #Jazz-lover #Bipolar. Developing Flight Tracker, career tracking #software, at @VUMChealth.

 Nashville, TN
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Joined November 2010
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Effective Emails: The Secret to Straightforward Communication at Work A concise guide to raising your #email "game" at #work. Filled with little tips to have more direct impact and waste less energy. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/effective-…
Effective Emails: The Secret to Straightforward Communication at Work

Effective Emails: The Secret to Straightforward Communication at Work

Email is a staple of the modern business workplace. A new employee can find that it’s easy to make dozens of simple mistakes. An experienced employee can find that they aren’t as effect…

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On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research The US National Academies' guide to ethics in scientific research. A concise but comprehensive overview of relevant issues. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/on-being-a…

On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research

Ethics in scientific research is an issue appearing periodically in the news… and often not in a good way. Perhaps some ethical lapse has led to a field’s struggles with millions of dol…

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing & Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers Moving #technology products from tech-centered ideas & visionary dreams to mainstream market mainstays. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/crossing-t…
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing & Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing & Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Most technology products begin with technologists playing in their environments. They then pick up steam when early visionaries figure out how to use it to expand their individual platforms and gai…

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The Self-Driven Child: The Science & Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives Central Message: Instead of engineering your kids' success, give them control over their lives and careers. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-self-d…
The Self-Driven Child: The Science & Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

The Self-Driven Child: The Science & Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

Like many, I had parents who tried to engineer their lives for “success,” but paid no attention to my passions, interests, and approach to life. Firsthand, I’ve seen that parentin…

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Sing, Wild Bird, Sing: A Novel A story beginning with a historic massacre of Irish people in the famine of 1947 and ending in America with the enduring theme of human dignity and freedom. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/sing-wild-…
Sing, Wild Bird, Sing: A Novel

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing: A Novel

This plot’s preamble begins in 19th-century Oregon, but quickly pivots to a prior time in Ireland during the famine of 1847. It shares the true story of an entire starving village traveling t…

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The Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction This #newRelease cements ethics lessons learned from the #COVID19 pandemic in preparation for whatever might come next. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-ethics…
The Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction

The Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction

For most of us, the COVID-19 pandemic was one that we would not choose to relive. Unfortunately, epidemics on an international stage occur with relative frequency, every decade or so. While how to …

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Product Management In Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century A practical guide to #ProductManagement in fields related to #tech, with a heavy emphasis on experience and wisdom. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/product-ma…

Product Management In Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century

Product management is a new role in the world of business. Mainly centered around building and deploying technology, product managers began to spring up in early-21st-century corporations. They hav…

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Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us? A Layperson's Guide to the Concepts, Math & Pitfalls of AI This #newRelease balances describing how #AI works and how it might, and might not, affect human civilization. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/is-the-alg…
Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us? A Layperson’s Guide to the Concepts, Math & Pitfalls of AI

Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us? A Layperson’s Guide to the Concepts, Math & Pitfalls of AI

Post-pandemic, perhaps no STEM topic has gripped the news quite like Artificial Intelligence (AI). For almost a century (since Isaac Asimov), science-fiction writers have dreamed of computers gaini…

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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness A history of psychiatric medicine written by an non-clinician & non-scientist that concludes with too little hope for pharmacological remedies. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/desperate-…
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

I must begin this review with a confession of my biases. I have had bipolar disorder for 20 years and have learned through hard-fought experience how to control it. I also have progressed through m…

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The Life She Wanted: A Novel This #newRelease describes the life story of a poor dreamer among New York's elite in the 1920s-1930s. She achieves what she wants, only in a different way than once expected. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-life-s…
The Life She Wanted: A Novel

The Life She Wanted: A Novel

Pandora Carmichael is the daughter of a once-famous tennis player who now teaches the sport to the well-to-do in the Hudson Valley in 1920s New York. She grows up around opulence, but she possesses…

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The Product Manager's Guide: Strategy, Psychology & Leadership at Work This #newRelease provides a general overview of product management for those who are mystified by this role in their organizations. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-produc…
The Product Manager’s Guide: Strategy, Psychology & Leadership at Work

The Product Manager’s Guide: Strategy, Psychology & Leadership at Work

In a diverse business, a product manager oversees all of the projects for several products. That is, it sits a step above project managers on the org chart. This corporate designation seems to exis…

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Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home & World This #newRelease tells lessons learned from a personal story of political leadership to create a more just world in Sierra Leone. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/radical-in…
Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home & World

Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home & World

David Moinina Sengeh was seemingly at the peak of a great career triumph. Educated in America at Harvard and MIT, he was now a governmental cabinet member of education in his home country Sierra Le…

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The Recruit's Playbook: A 4-Year Guide to College Football Recruitment for High School Athletes An accessible guide for players about the complicated process of college football recruiting. Includes a year-by-year plan. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-recrui…
The Recruit’s Playbook: A 4-Year Guide to College Football Recruitment for High School Athletes

The Recruit’s Playbook: A 4-Year Guide to College Football Recruitment for High School Athletes

Recruiting for college football is a complicated but important process. Many aspire to its benefits, but only a few will move onto the next level. Like anything in sports and life, those who prepar…

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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons An engaging series of stories about foundational patient experiences that taught us the core #neuroscience of how the human brain works. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-tale-o…

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

Research into the human brain comprises an exciting frontier of knowledge today, yet most scientific accounts can dryly bore the average reader. And frankly, a lot of scientists and doctors can ben…

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Parenting Teens with Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood A conservative but helpful guide to child psychology with teenaged children, focused on increasing habits of responsibility. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/parenting-…
Parenting Teens with Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood

Parenting Teens with Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood

When my daughter was younger, I enjoyed reading Love and Logic for parents of young children. I found it helpful for establishing a good relationship with my daughter. And she has become a healthy …

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation This #newRelease is a memoir that traces a typical movement through evangelical culture and reckoning with its contradictions and shortcomings. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/testimony-…
Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation

Evangelicalism grew popular in the 1980s-1990s, yet many, like myself and Jon Ward, were wounded by a movement that seemed more self-interested and self-absorbed than interested in bettering the re…

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The Home Front: Life in America During World War II A collection of podcasts with footage of interviews describing America's domestic challenges during World War II - an enlightening angle on the war. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-home-f…
The Home Front: Life in America During World War II

The Home Front: Life in America During World War II

The story of World War II has been well-mined by historians over the past 80 years. It’s hard to provide a new angle on the action, yet this series of podcasts does just that. While many hist…

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The Light on Farallon Island: A Novel This #newRelease of historical fiction delights in spanning #romance, #suspense, and #mystery. Voyage to a near-barren island and discover yourself alongside Lucy Riley. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-light-…
The Light on Farallon Island: A Novel

The Light on Farallon Island: A Novel

Lucy Riley is someone with secrets that haunt her from England to the American East to the Mid-West to the West Coast. They even chase her out of San Francisco to the Farallon Islands in the Pacifi…

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Co-Active Coaching: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work & in Life A framework for coaching that doesn't depend on technical knowledge but emphasizes the coachee's autonomy. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/co-active-…

Co-Active Coaching: The Proven Framework for Transformative Conversations at Work & in Life

Coaching and mentoring are crucial ingredients for success in almost every endeavor. At first, the coachee needs to learn technical skills to succeed, but later, they must learn how to navigate mor…

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The Nigerwife: A Novel A tale of suspense centered around a (real-life) group that calls themselves the "Nigerwives" in Lagos, Nigeria. It involves the search for a missing person, which uncovers years of family secrets. #BookReview #ScottsBookReview scottjpearson.com/the-nigerw…
The Nigerwife: A Novel

The Nigerwife: A Novel

As with me, most people’s first reaction to this book will be to its title. To be clear, it does not use the infamous n-word but rather refers to Nigeria (pronounced with a soft-g, not a hard…

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