How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man (Paperback) by L Rust Hills

from michaelm42071

Originally published in three separate parts. In the first section, "How to Do Things Right," Hills gives directions for a lot of silly things, like "How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone," and some not so silly ones, like "How to Cut Down on Drinking and Smoking" (where he is not nearly so smugly sure he...

from Gold_Gato

I once worked with a group of software engineers who were so fussy, they would wall off their office windows with silver foil. This is the book I turned to as I tried to 'be one' with my co-workers. It didn't make my office group more lovable, but it did make me laugh enough to appreciate their, ...

from libraryhead

As the many tags indicate, this compilation is many things all mashed up together. Worth seeking out the expanded (original) versions of books 1 and 3: the fussy man bit ("precision living," as someone else tagged it) and the philosophical/ethics one. The part where he experiences a split persona...