Think Again – Adam Grant
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to stop valuing pure intelligence or money as a goal and instead look towards the ability to abandon ideas that are no longer valid and relearn when presented with new information.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…
Style: Non-fiction
Wind and Truth – Brandon Sanderson
The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while working through this and it never felt like a slog. I’d still say the first few books were my favourite as we…
Genre: FantasyStyle: Fiction
The Big Fix – Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar
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…
Style: Non-fiction
Co-Intelligence – Ethan Mollick
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…
Style: Non-fiction
A System for Writing – Bob Doto
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…
Style: Non-fiction
The Language of the Night – Ursula K. Le Guin
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…
Style: Non-fiction
The Courage to Be Disliked – Kishimi & Koga
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…
Style: Non-fiction
Footprints In Search of Future Fossils – David Farrier
What types of fossils will our society leave behind? What is the half life of our nuclear waste, and what does that mean in the terms of future generations that will still have to deal with it? How is the pollution we’re putting into the atmosphere today going to show up for generations to come?…
Style: Non-fiction
The Toll – Neal Shusterman
This is the final book in the Arc of the Scythe series. Citra and Rowan have disappeared and Scythe Goddard has nothing standing in his way to his dream of unchecked killing by his new order of Scythe’s. I found the book had me on the edge of my seat, just like the whole series…
Style: Fiction
Thunderhead – Neal Shusterman
Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of the Scythe series. This follows Anastasia as she tries to “glean” with compassion while openly challenging the new order of Scythes that want to gain more power over the world. I found the world compelling and will read through the whole series again.
Genre: Science FictionStyle: Fiction