Book Shorts: Fred the Cow? I enjoyed two interesting, super-quick reads from last week that have a common theme running through them: being remarkable. The Fred Factor, by Mark Sanborn, is one of those learn-by-storytelling business novellas. It’s all about the author’s mailman, Fred, and how Fred has figured out how to make a difference in people’s lives even with a fairly routine job. The focal points of the book are things like “practice random acts of kindness” and “turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by putting passion into your work.” It’s a good reminder that it is unbelievably easy, not to mention free, to be kind and thoughtful, and that those things are always always always worth doing. Kinda…