Category: Book Reviews
Facebook is Run by Entitled Idiots
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My first interactions with Facebook were wonderful, I used it to find a high school friend only to find out they lived an hour away and had got back together with their high school sweetheart who was also a friend. I connected with them and we had dinner where they got to meet my wife.
Can Scott Galloway Teach You To Be a Man
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Many words have been written about the male loneliness epidemic, as well as the rise of the manosphere with its myriad toxic personalities who pedal fixes for the lack of manly men, which often involves putting down women and lean into misogyny if they don’t outright support misogyny. Into this world Scott Galloway steps with
My Kids Wanted to Recommend Books
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My Favourite Books of 2024
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Non-Fiction Dark PR First, Grant was kind enough to gift me a physical copy of this book when I said it wasn’t available at my local library. No request from him, just asked for my address and sent a book. In this book the reader is provided with many frameworks to use when they think
Book Review – Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
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I don’t remember when I first stumbled across Farnham Street but I do remember finding the content very helpful in my journey to be a life-long learner. Thus when I saw Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish I grabbed it hoping for the same feeling of great wisdom being imparted. Parrish wrote this book to help
Slow Productivity Review
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Slow Productivity is Cal Newport’s 5th entry into the adult productivity space, all of which I’ve read. My first entry into Newport was Deep Work which I wrote two extensive posts about. At the time it was saying all the things I was thinking but had no words for. But since then I’m not sure
March 2024 Reading
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Fiction Read in March 2024 Liberty’s Daughter – Naomi Kritzer Liberty’s Daughter follows Beck Garrison, who was kidnapped by her father to live on a techno-libertarian seastead. We get to follow Beck as she reunites with the mother she thought was dead, and finds “stuff” for people. Beck is at the center of a quest
Techno-bros Want Us to Trust This Idea
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I first grabbed Read Write Own from my local library because the subtitle sounded interesting. I’m ready for a new era on the internet, the current one of companies controlling everything and extracting the maximum they can from people sucks and I’m tired of it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of who Chris Dixon was so
Feb 2024 – Books Read
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As we do every month, let’s take a look at the books I read in February 2024. Overall I “read” 9 books, 3 fiction and 6 non-fiction. I also added 3 fiction books on Audible this month for a total of 12 books. Unfortunately my current system of recording books read doesn’t have a way
Feel Good Productivity – Should You Read It?
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Ali Abdaal is a popular YouTube content creator that focuses on productivity and living a good life and his first book is all about helping you be productive without simply grinding harder. Instead Abdaal wants to help readers get stuff done while still taking care of ourselves. He bases much of his thoughts on the
