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Publication Date: February 17, 2011
The acclaimed author of Ignore Everybody is back with more irreverent wisdom, wit, and original cartoons.

"It has never been easier to make a great living doing what you love. But to make it happen, first you need an EVIL PLAN. Everybody needs to get away from lousy bosses, from boring, dead-end jobs that they hate, and ACTUALLY start doing something they love, something that matters. Life is short." -Hugh MacLeod

Freud once said that in order to be truly happy people need two things: the capacity to work and the capacity to love. Evil Plans is about being able to do both at the same time. The sometimes unfortunate side effect is that others will hate you for it. MacLeod's insights are brash, wise, and often funny.

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About the Author

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and professional blogger known for his ideas about how Web 2.0 affects marketing. After a decade of working as an advertising copywriter, MacLeod started blogging at gapingvoid.com in 2001, publishing cartoons that he drew on the back of business cards in his spare time.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover; 1St Edition edition (February 17, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1591843847
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591843849
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Hugh MacLeod worked as an advertising copywriter for more than a decade, while developing his skills as a cartoonist and pundit. His blog is Gaping Void, and more than a million people have downloaded the original post that inspired this book, "How to be Creative." He also lectures and consults on Web 2.0 and its impact on business.

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66 of 74 people found the following review helpful
Ask yourself why February 21, 2011
Format:Hardcover
Why do you do what you do? It's the question you will be forced to answer while you are reading this book. Just like 'Ignore Everybody', Hugh's first book, I found this book to be the kind of reading that wakes you up and makes you ask ( and hopefully answer ) the tough questions.

If I were to summarize Evil Plans in 100 words or less, it would be something like this:

Q: Why do you do what you do?
A: To make money so that I can do the things I really want to do

Q: Why not just do the thing you really want to do?
A: Umm... err.. gasp... cough I can't afford to / I'm not good enough / I don't know how / My friends will think I am an idiot

Q: What would it take to make it so you could do that which you love, and that which you are uniquely able to do?
A: (silence)

That's where your Evil Plan begins.

Buy this book. Then keep reading it once a week on the journey to doing what you love.
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67 of 78 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book is kind of like fast food. It was apparently easy to make, it's easy to read, and while it may feel good at the time its quality is dubious. We have a 170-page book filled with two page chapters and a lot of pages consisting entirely of two-by-three inch cartoons with bumper sticker phrases such as "Love doesn't have a purpose; love is a purpose."

While the book doesn't have a lot of content, we do get some interesting insights about the author. He lives in a rural area in west Texas. He's working on ten projects at any given time. He works constantly, often taking conference calls from 7am until late into the night. He doesn't find time to watch television or take vacations. He apparently doesn't have a family, and in an aside he admits that he doesn't really have time for a relationship. And yet he boasts about his life as if it is not only the best way to live, but that it will be the only way we will be able to live in the future.

I don't doubt that this author has found some success with his projects. But judging with my eyes the quality of his drawings and book, along with how he describes his life, he doesn't really convince me that he is much of a role model or that his advice has much merit.
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30 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Nothing new or overly helpful February 24, 2011
By DCG
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Pretty much the same info as all the other books out here trying to motivate people to follow their passion. The book features a few bits of valuable advice, but mostly is about things that are common sense. Also, Hugh focuses pretty heavily on quoting other people's advice, rather than providing his own. I wanted to like the book, but honestly did not get much useful information out of it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
could of passed on it
a friend recommended it to me so I bought it. If you just follow him on his blog you will get the jist of this. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Promeza
BRILLIANT MAN
Buy this man's book. Period. Because Amazon forces me to say more, this is what I will say: this man is both talking And walking the talk. That makes his work solid gold. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Adel Anwar
Not a "How-To" Book...
This isn't a "how to" book.

Hugh does a great job of getting you to think differently about your own situation through his cartoons and writing. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Joseph Ratliff
Love or Hate
I suspect this is one of those books that people will either really resonate with or really dislike. I fall squarely into the latter category. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Burgundy Damsel
simple messages, well told
The messages are nothing new:do not be a cog;do what you love;do be a nice person;do understand the world is changing and you must change with it, you have no choice. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael P. Maslanka
Fun MacLeodean wisdom for changing times
This is a fun reading, with inspiring messages from and for both frustrating and energetic situations, and with the artful touch of Hugh MacLeod, a voice of freedom in the Internet... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Nando Pereira
Evil plans
Its a good read, If you liked the first book this author wrote your going to love this book also =)
Published 7 months ago by vita
Waste of money
You will be done reading this book in about 30 minutes and get absolutely nothing but fluff talk and some stories from it. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dan
A Great Book to Help You Create Your Evil Plan
Evil Plans is a great book. It's a book about an idea and about a state of mind that allows you to chase your dreams. Read more
Published 8 months ago by David Starkweather
Nothing too original here, may be good for motivation.
I found this book to be very funny and thought-provoking. If you're looking for a guide on how to make a million bucks just sitting there and typing a blog, this is not it, but if... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Joe
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