Style: Non-fiction
Never Play it Safe – Chase Jarvis
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This was read for September 2025 book club. Join to get regular posts on books. While part of my is always inspired by these types of books they also seem to be extreme examples of survivorship bias. We only hear about all the people the author has met, and sometimes coached, that succeeded by following
Moral Ambition – Rutger Bregman
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This is Rutger Bregman’s treatise to get you to do more with your life than simply get a job to earn lots of money and find a position of power. He says that you have a deep moral obligation to make a change in the world with your work and that far too many people
Apple in China – Patrick McGee
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Apple in China paints a picture of a company that took Steve Jobs personality to heart. From Tony Blevin’s making deals that put workers in dire situations at Foxconn so that the company could hit the prices Apple forced on them, to Tim Cook going back on his 2017 statement about staying silent in the
Of Boys and Men – Richard V Reeves
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The main idea that Richard V Reeves is trying to get across is that men are in crisis now, and that acknowledging the crisis that men are having doesn’t negate any compassion and equality we still need to seek for women. It is possible to hold the idea in your head that both men and
Meditations for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
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This is an in progress read for book club. Scroll to the bottom to see the related posts. Oliver Burkeman asks us to spend one day on each chapter, ideally, and evaluate how hard we are on ourselves. Instead of falling into the prouductivity porn culture surrounding us, where we rush through everything so we
Farsighted – Steven Johnson
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This was read for book club in July. Join to get all the discussion on the book. While Johnson has some good ideas we can put into practice, he takes far too long telling us stories to get them across. This is a “glossy” book, much like Malcolm Gladwell writes, which gives us a high
The Burnout Society – Byung-Chul Han
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While there are many great ideas to pique your interest, I couldn’t help but think that I needed to read all the other philosophy the author cites to fully make sense of his arguments. This is clearly a philosophy book focused on burnout and work, and it’s written as such with long complex arguments I
The Siren’s Call – Chris Hayes
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The Siren’s Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don’t want. We don’t really want to doom scroll, but it’s hard to fight the generated content that gets put in front of us because it’s just compelling enough and provides just the right amount of dopamine hits to
Making it So – Patrick Steward
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This was a wonderful look back at the career of Patrick Stewart. I love that he was comfortable enough to share many embarrassing stories, and reflect on how uptight he was in the beginning of his career wishing he could go back and get himself to lighten up a bit. I also loved the genuine
Think Again – Adam Grant
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In a world that seems to be going to hell in a hand basket maybe we need to stop valuing pure intelligence or money as a goal and instead look towards the ability to abandon ideas that are no longer valid and relearn when presented with new information. That is the goal of Adam Grant’s
