Category: Book Reviews
How Scarcity Affects Our Lives – Book Review
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Have you ever felt like you had less than you needed? Well that’s the definition of scarcity1 and what Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir is all about. Throughout the book the authors will look at what causes scarcity and how it captures you in it’s clutches sometimes causing a spiral into more and
How Expertise Died
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> These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything.[^1] With that early quote Tom Nichols sets the tone for The Death of Expertise, a book about the collapse of relationships between experts and citizens[^2]. One of the first points
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
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Those who have opportunity to work in organizations that treat them like human beings to be protected rather than a resource to be exploited come home at the end of the day with an intense feeling of fulfillment and gratitude. This should be the rule for all of us, not the exception. 1 Have you
Achieving Stillness in the Turmoil of Life With Ryan Holiday
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To be steady while the world spins around you. To act without frenzy. To hear only what needs to be heard. To posses quietude — interior and exterior — on command. 1 Early in Stillness is the Key Holiday introduces us to his end goal of the book in the quote above. He wants to
Remember: You Are Awesome
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Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, lets be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceived failure. These days when we fall we just lie on the sidewalk crying. We
Nir Eyal on How to Become Indistractable
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In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others and those who proudly call themselves “indistractable”. 1 With that early in the book Nir Eyal sets the tone for Indistractable, a book about helping us learn to control
What is a Company of One?
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One of the relentless pursuits of so many businesses is growth. The freelancer wants to have a small agency. The agency wants to be big enough to get huge clients. The huge agency looks toward government contracts and multiple locations in the “vibrant” cities. What many of these businesses fail to realize is that growth
Is It Better to Specialize or Go for Range?
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The story much of the world tells us is that we need to get a head start at everything if we want to be successful. If you want to be a musician, better start practicing shortly after you’re out of diapers. Want to be succeed at sports, if you haven’t started deliberate practice to get
The Choices Society Makes Discounts Women
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While 50% of the world population may be female, the world discounts so much of the benefit that comes from that half of our population. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez aims to show us how that bias is harming not just women, but society in general. Early on Perez states that this bias comes
Looking at Unschooling With Kerry McDonald
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> Too often, in everyday language, we equate education with _schooling_. We ask someone “How much education have you had?” and we expect them to tell us about the number of years they spent in school or their highest diploma. IX I was never all that into high school, which I don’t think is odd.
