May 2020 Book Review | The Books I Read This Month
Books I read in May 2020: Exhalation – Ted ChiangThe Martian Chronicles – Ray BradburyStories of Your Life and Others – Ted ChiangThe 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth – John C. MaxwellThe One Thing – Gary KellerGood Leaders Ask Great Questions – John C. MaxwellTortilla Flat – John SteinbeckThe Grapes…
The Roads to Sata, Lost Books, and A New Medium
I recently uploaded a few videos to YouTube. I want to start posting short book review videos. There are some books that I love and I what to share my thoughts about them, but writing an article about them isn’t always feasible. Hopefully, I can share more about the books…
What is the Lindy Effect?
“I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb…
Review of ‘Thanks, Obama’ by David Litt
President Obama’s use of humor was vital to his popularity during his presidency. He owes a lot of his funniest moments to presidential speechwriter David Litt. Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years, is David Litt’s memoir of his time in the White House. Litt, like most of Obama’s…
‘Salt Sugar Fat’ by Michael Moss | Summary and Review
Salt Sugar Fat is a book by Micheal Moss that looks at how the food industry has used three simple ingredients to manipulate the way we eat. It is an engaging book that dives deep into the history of salt, sugar, and fat. In many ways, the story of this…
5 Lessons From the Great Eliud Kipchoge
On October 12, 2019, at 11:15 PM, I was sitting on my couch for the start of the Ineos 1:59 challenge. Halfway around the world in Vienna, Austria, the timers began as Eliud Kipchoge started his attempt to break the sub-two-hour marathon. I watched the entire event. Emotion overtook me…
‘Spaceman’ by Mike Massimino – Review, Takeaways, and Thoughts
A few months ago, I read Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey To Unlock The Secrets of the Universe. This book caught me by surprise. I purchased the audiobook during one of Audible’s Daily Deal sales. It had a high customer rating and sounded like an interesting read. I wasn’t expecting…
What I Talk About When I Read About Running
I love great memoirs. Especially, when they are written by writers. I find their insights into life so fascinating. I’ve read two great ones in recent months: first, I read Working by Robert A. Caro (You can read what I wrote about his memoir here), and secondly, I recently finished…
What I Learned From Analyzing My Goodreads Data
In Nassim Taleb’s bestselling book The Black Swan he says, “[he] completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television.” This freed up one hour or more a day, which he said, “[was] enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades,…