Rating: Maybe
The Big Fix – Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
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Denise and Vass us this book to take a look at the regulatory framework that Canada uses to evaluate competition and monopoly powers. While I knew that many companies owned many brands that “competed” with each other, this did bring more of that to the forefront. There really is only 2 or 3 companies that…
Co-Intelligence – Ethan Mollick
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AI has come for our world, whether we like it or not. In Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick, takes a positive look at what AI could mean for our lives. He explores how to maximize it’s effectiveness for our productivity and dreams of a “better” world where AI lets us get more done with less effort, and…
A System for Writing – Bob Doto
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Bob Doto’s, A System for writing is a good entry into the world of note-taking books. He is concise and direct while still hitting all the high points I think need to be hit to create a good practice of taking notes and producing writing/content from them. We both agree that a key point is…
The Language of the Night – Ursula K. Le Guin
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This is a compilation of many essays by Le Guin on writing and writing science fiction in particular. She deals with the pronouns used in sci-fi to describe characters, with special updated notes covering her newer thoughts on “he” as a gender neutral pronoun (she doesn’t believe it is in the 1980’s like she did…
The Courage to Be Disliked – Kishimi & Koga
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The Courage to be Disliked is a discussion between a philosopher and a young adult who comes to challenge the philosopher on the validity of their ideas. The philosopher has taken Alfred Adler’s psychological theory of individual psychology to heart and spends the book teaching it to the visitor. My favourite point to think about…
Just One More Chapter – Maneetpaul Singh
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This is a short motivational guide with practical advice to help you set up a reading practice. You can feel the strong influence of Atomic Habits in Singh’s writing with his habit tips, which he acknowledges in the paragraph after I had that thought. If you’ve steeped in habits, you don’t need to read this.…
A Better Place on Earth – Andrew MacLeod
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I’ve read a number of books about basic income or scarcity and poverty but they’ve all been in the US context and aren’t entirely applicable to the political climate found in Canada. A Better Place on Earth takes a look at equality, poverty, and homelessness in my home province of British Columbia. MacLeod provides stark…
To Write As If Already Dead – Kate Zabreno
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While this book is supposed to be a look at the life of Hervé Guibert, I have no idea who that is or his significance to the literary world, which is notable according to the book. What stuck out to me in this book is the critique of motherhood and the failings of the US…
Eat that Frog – Brian Tracy
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This book is all about doing the hardest thing in your day first so that if you don’t get to much else, at least you’ve got the hardest things done. While I felt it was a rehash of many of the ideas I’ve read about in productivity books, there are a few new ideas and…
Saving Time – Jenny Odell
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This is Jenny Odells attempt to make sense of time outside of how capitalism tells us we should view time, the relentless pursuit of productivity at the expense of inhabiting the life around us. This is much more a philosophical book than practical one. Jenny offers little advice on how to break out of working…
