Really enjoying Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. Book review coming next week (probably.) One thing I learned was the importance of monitoring and tweaking the amount of stimulation around me when I’m working. Little things like turning my music a little bit lower than usual and […]
With a great premise and a recommendation from a trusted friend, I had high hopes for this book. In the near-future a ‘cure for aging’ is found and the world faces never-before-considered problems associated with rapid population growth. Kind of like the Torchwood series Miracle Day, except people still die. Murders and cancer still happen, but […]
It’s good to hear from John Perry again. I missed his presence in The Ghost Brigades. But even better is to meet Jane Sagan again. After listening to “The Sagan Diary” I started to really appreciate her character and the decisions she made between book 2 and book 3. The Last Colony features Jane as […]
The Domino Project was a publishing experiment run by Seth Godin and Amazon.com back in 2011. They released several small books aimed at business readers. The book equivalent of a TED talk, they could be consumed quickly (about an hour) and had a mission of spreading ideas quickly. Occasionally Seth still publishes blog posts for Domino, […]
I read Steven Pressfield’s War of Art faster than any other book this year. My review isn’t ready yet (next week, maybe?) but I wanted to share this snippet. Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North—meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from […]
I just recently started The Last Colony, the third book in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe. If you didn’t know, I loved the first two books. Detailing events that take place between The Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony, Scalzi also wrote a novella called The Sagan Diary. He enlisted several friends to create an audio version, which is available on […]
Business non-fiction is one of my favorite pastimes. Reading the advice of successful people always feels like time well spent. Taking People With You leaves me with a great respect for David Novak, the Executive Chairman of YUM! brands here in Louisville. He was CEO at the time of the book’s publication. It’s a public version of the […]
I enjoyed Old Man’s War so much, I immediately requested the sequel from my local library. The Ghost Brigades did not disappoint. And while so many franchises will rely on its charismatic main character, Scalzi didn’t feel the need to do so – it’s a credit to the wonderful universe he’s created. We take on this adventure from […]
“Turns out Neil Gaiman accidentally wrote Harry Potter in 1990.” That’s how my friend Peter introduced this comic book mini-series to me. I’ve never really been into comic books, but occasionally I feel like I should be. Peter is my best enabler on that front. He recommends to me the ‘what you should read next’ and […]
A defining moment of my life thusfar has been discovering this book, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine. The discovery of this changed a lot of my thinking, because up to that point I had been confused as to my life’s goal. Religion and its purpose […]
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