What is the best season of Monk? My wife and I have been watching Monk off and on for the last few months. We are almost finished with the series, and I wanted to try and figure out what the best season of Monk is using IMDb data. I will also be looking at other …
This is the first article in a series I will be doing on leather-bound books. I’ve posted many times about the books I have read, and what I’ve learned from them, but today I want to talk about the way they look. Leather-bound books are books dressed in their best suit. They instantly make any …
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 as I watched the final …
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 to love the book as …
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 Talk About When …
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, starts mounting.” This really got …
I’ve been living and working in the Phoenix area for almost two years now. I am currently employed as a revenue accountant for one of the larger public companies (one on the list below) in Phoenix. I haven’t been able to find a good list of the largest public companies in the Phoenix metropolitan area, so …
I look to Ralph Waldo Emerson as a guiding star and a kindred spirit. Although nearly 200 years separate our existence, I feel strongly connected to the man and his teachings. I recently read Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson. I loved this biography. Emerson could not stop filling his mind with …
These are my notes from The Laws of Success by Sterling W. Sill. This is an older book and copies are hard to come by. I love Sterling W. Sill’s writing. He writes to motivate others to higher levels of success. He stresses the importance of reading, writing, pondering and personal development. I’ve written previously …