Category: Book Reviews
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
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After reading The Case Against Education I saw another intriguing title from Bryan Caplan about having more kids for selfish reasons. Today we’ll look at that book, called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The purpose is directly in the title for the curious. Caplan is going to argue that if you wanted no kids,…
The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
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Did you love going to school? I know I didn’t. My biggest problem was that I couldn’t see the point of most of the work I did and thus didn’t feel like wasting my effort on it. I easily grasped math that I could turn around and use in my construction job, but then struggled…
The Underground Girls of Kabul
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While we may all want to think that we’re so much better than the Taliban, in many respects behaviour in North America is simply better hidden than it was under the Taliban regime. No where is this more evident than in the way we treat women. I grabbed The Underground Girls of Kabul a number…
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
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A well-designed life is a life that is generative — it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always the possibility of surprise.1 We all want a life that fulfills us. One that we wake up and greet with joy. One that challenges us and allows us to use our talents to their…
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Starting late in 2019 I realized that I had read little by people of colour and didn’t understand racism at all. I didn’t understand how First Nations in Canada had been treated. I didn’t know much about slavery, or how many paragons of white history were pretty terrible people. I’ve done some reading to expand…
How to Take Smart Notes – Book Review
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We all write in some fashion at some point. Maybe it’s to clients in a project management system as you recommend the proper solution to their problems. Maybe it’s on a blog as you review gear and books. Maybe you even write books or research papers. There is lots of advice out there to help…
The Second Mountain by David Books
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If you’ve ever felt like you’re living a life that’s missing some sort of purpose, outside of enriching yourself financially, then David Brooks has written The Second Mountain for you. Brooks defines the first life of living mostly for yourself and focused on your own individualism and personal desires as the **First Mountain**[^1]. To Brooks…
The End of Average by Todd Rose
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At many points in our lives we are graded against the average[^2]. In fact, the entire process of school is you being graded against the average. But the truth is that the middle of all the variance that’s being measure is a big hole that no one fits in any way resembling perfection. The outcome…
How to Do Nothing With Jenny Odell
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Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource but the technologies we use daily. we submit our free time to numerical evaluation, interact with algorithmic versions of each other,…
The Inconvenient Indian
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The title of _The Inconvenient Indian_ by Thomas King speaks well of the views that North American’s have had, and continue to have about the First Nations that live next to us and with us. They’re inconvenient because they don’t conform to what colonial thought has brought us up to believe. King uses his unique…
