Category: Book Reviews

  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

    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…

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  • How to Take Smart Notes – Book Review

    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…

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  • The Second Mountain by David Books

    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…

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  • The End of Average by Todd Rose

    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…

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  • 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,…

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    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…

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  • Books I’m Not Finishing In 2020

    Books I’m Not Finishing In 2020

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    Yes I read a bunch, but I don’t finish every book I read. In fact this year I’ve decided to put down books faster instead of muscling through them because there will some grain in them that makes the whole endeavour worthwhile. Today I’m going to talk about the books I decided not to finish…

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  • Things Cal Newport Missed in So Good They Can’t Ignore You

    Things Cal Newport Missed in So Good They Can’t Ignore You

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    Back in 2017 I read So Good They Can’t Ignore you for the first time. Well 2019 and 2020 have been a season of purchasing some of my favourite digital books in physical form and then reading them again and today’s book is So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Instead of a review/summary of the…

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  • Shorter by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

    Shorter by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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    > We live in a world in which business operates 24/7, the global economy never stops, and competition is relentless. And even if you can become productive enough to finish early, customers and bosses still expect you to be available at all hours.[^1]. With that thought, Alex Soojun-Kim Pang, opens up his follow up to…

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  • BiblioTECH – Book Review

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    The subtitle of BiblioTECH neatly summarizes the intent of the book “Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google”. On the surface you may be asking that question, I know I didn’t use the library much outside of taking my kids sometimes until the last 18 months. BiblioTECH by John Palfrey is…

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