Nineteen years of reading recommendations, pulled out of his own archive and sorted by subject. 527 books across 313 posts, from 2007 to 2026. Every entry links back to the post where he actually said it.
| 39× | Meditations: A New Translation (Revised) | 2007 |
| 11× | Letters from a Stoic | 2007 |
| 9× | Fight Club | 2007 |
| 8× | The War of Art – Steven Pressfield | 2007 |
| 7× | 48 Laws of Power | 2007 |
| 7× | The Black Swan | 2008 |
| 6× | Ego Is The Enemy | 2016 |
| 6× | History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Revised) | 2007 |
| 6× | Reveille for Radicals | 2007 |
| 6× | Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals | 2007 |
| 6× | Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American | 2012 |
| 6× | The Power Broker | 2007 |
Counted by how many separate posts mention the book. Books he wrote himself are excluded from this list and from everything below — there are 12 of those, and they are on his own shelf.
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d expected something conclusive and fatal and now I realized that what was coming to him was not a sudden pay-off but a process, a disease he had caught in the epidemic that swept…
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to IV (which cover Marcus and Commodus) Marcus Aurelius by Mathew Arnold On Liberty – John Stuart Mill (mentioned briefly but significantly in the middle of the essay) The Inner…
hy will figure into it), but a philosophical one, in which I will try to see what moderns can learn from the writings and actions (and, as the case may be, failures) of these four…
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countless others. I’m sure you can guess my favorite subject. Also try The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, translated by the peerless Robert Graves, these are more biographies of the…
obligations, myself is not enough. I also have to be orchestrating various machinations behind the scenes—to get them before they get me; to get them back for the slights I…
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te> The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley A wonderful concept for a book. It spends a page and half or so on the deaths of 170 different philosophers. For some, it…
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hment just moves up one place in line. And I think ultimately, the poor state of say television or movies, ought to stand as a challenge to all the artists out there, toiling in…
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nst it. Death is not an evil. Seneca Letters from a Stoic “Occasionally I wondered if these girls ever took time to be out by themselves and reflect, apart from their girlfriends.…
in his private life. We must study Washington not only for his nearly unbelievable military victory over a superior British Army, but also for his strategic vision which quite…
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sh more people would read it. Machiavelli learned them, as this book inspired The Prince . Lord Chesterfield’s Letters by Lord Chesterfield . Just like Meditations , which was…
etermination of this man, to take an entire country on your back and defy a horde which had overrun the European continent in a matter of months…it’s almost breathtaking to think…
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roads of the self.” Yet, he was equally Epicurean in his focus on pleasure and happiness despite the general bleakness of France at the time. Somehow his epistemological humility…
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even though the proxy fight kicked off the war between Athens and Sparta. (To write this, I had to look the names up myself, I only recalled that they started with a C) What you…
orthless . Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon . Part of ambition is modeling yourself after those you’d like to be like. Austin’s philosophy of ruthlessly stealing and remixing…
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Blog Letters from a Stoic I tore this book to pieces. My copy is overflowing with tabs. Seneca was a really interesting figure too. Like Hays said in my interview with him, “not…
“And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up. ” Marcus Aurelius, Mediations Things get shitty when I stop and almost always get better when I start again. But I stop…
“And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up. ” Marcus Aurelius, Mediations Things get shitty when I stop and almost always get better when I start again. But I stop…
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Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (blown away by ER. she deserved a better biographer. it feels like the writer died in the…
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be talked about in the same breath. The Civil War I went so deep into Civil War in 2012 that I lost track of all the books. I started this last year when I read Sherman by B.H…
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r of his case. But when the jury went to deliberate, the ruling tyrant Critias ordered troops to shackle and remove him under a sentence of death. As they dragged Theramenes…
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osi the greatest lawyer since Clarence Darrow. -Unhooked would be better if it focused more on the reasons why the college sex scene is bad–as opposed to merely asserting it is…
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ther what was intended to be Part III of Wisdom Takes Work , I thought I was set. It turns out I wasn’t even close. I was stuck and I could not find the words. That might seem…
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Blog What I’m Reading Natural History, Volume III, Books 8-11 by Pliny the Elder (8-11 are the books about zoology and animals. it is the funniest book I have read in a long time.…
I have written this post before, but it remains a common theme. The busier we get, the more we work, and learn and read, the further we drift. We get in a rhythm. We’re making…
famous coach of LSU and Alabama —perhaps the most dominant dynasty in the history of college football. But he got it from a psychiatry professor named Lionel Rosen during his time…
d myself in his world, from spending hours in Downtown LA where the books are based to reading everything I could find by his contemporaries. I even found out one of his novels is…
e a lot of perspective. (Basically, our notion of his hypocrisy can be traced backed to a single begrudged person) Then I talked about it with Robert Greene and he told me what he…
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has ever completely surpassed their predecessor) Black Boy by Richard Wright Socrates by A.E Taylor (short, very good. was Socrates the wisest because he knew that he knew…
-> Blog Stuff You Might Like Theory of War , Joan Brady This book is insane. It’s the story of a white boy sold into slavery after the Civil War and uses von Clausewitz to follow…
Plutarch This short essay from Plutarch is about an important strategic (and life) lesson. Our enemies and our obstacles are always teaching us. There is always some lesson or…
#8212; Seth Godin Maybe the best book I’ve read on work/inspiration/creation since The War of Art . It’s only 70 pages and it looks like something someone would give as a joke…
coming Bias and Marginal Revolution for that (the latter of which was the source for these particular papers) Purple Cow — Seth Godin Better than The Dip but primarily about…
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t it meant nothing because they couldn’t think strategically. They could not change courses after they committed. They lacked the fluidity to survive even in the Ancient world.…
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from the bargain section) Mark Twain: A Life by Ron Powers (stopped halfway, decent) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (good, no reason it had to be so…
Blog What I’m Reading Natural History, Volume III, Books 8-11 by Pliny the Elder (8-11 are the books about zoology and animals. it is the funniest book I have read in a long time.…
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air, but on the ground and by sea. His concepts pioneered the modern concept of maneuver warfare (and were used for the First Gulf War). His method of problem solving and problem…
One of the things I wanted to start doing was posting my thoughts and reactions to the books I’ve been reading. This isn’t a new thing, I’ve been recording the quotes and filling…
ed to attempting to slow alter old ones or ignore the glaring disparity. They would know the space and the culture and avoid the blunders of hubris and projection. I posted a few…
. It’s fucking harrowing and written lucidly and articulately by the person who experienced it. For 12 years, he was a slave–and not some border-state slave, but a bayou slave in…
dense though) The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes (spectacularly simple and well written) My Life and Battles : By Jack Johnson (the boxer. great book) American…
Blog What I’m Reading Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (blown away by ER. she deserved a better biographer. it feels like the…
ant metaphors and figures of speech–and learn them so well that words become works.” – Seneca So this is my Life section: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Sherman: Soldier, Realist,…
e. Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office by Zack O’Malley Greenburg. This is a biography that also functions as a business book. It shows how as…
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ca, read this one. It’s the real story of a born freedman in the North who, as a traveling musician, was brought out of his home state on false pretenses in order to be captured,…
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sibly the memoir of the founder of Nike, it’s really the story of a lost kid trying to find meaning in his life and it ends with him creating a multi-billion dollar company that…
he greatest short story ever written. Too many books about the Civil War are inaccessible, with their flanking movements and war vocabulary. This book is all people. Must read.…
Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865 by Brooks D. Simpson. I loved learning about Lincoln, especially in Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled…
It looks like the system is also very similar to Luhmann’s Zettelkasten . Though again, his discipline seems to exceed mine because I am a lot less ordered. – Ronald Reagan also…
ay, decent) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (good, no reason it had to be so dense though) The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes…
ockefeller to be strangely stoic, incredibly resilient and, despite his reputation as a robber baron, humble and compassionate. Most people get WORSE as they get successful, many…
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Blog Three Good Books, Three Not So Good Books Good: Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan An exploration of the effects of being articulate, well-spoken and obsessed…
ocumentary Civil War. A trip to Vicksburg (twice) and Natchez. At least 50 long form articles on the Time’s Disunion blog . Nearly everything in The Atlantic’s Civil War…
that I read two more books about him: Sherman’s Memoirs and a big old book from 1933 Sherman: Fighting Prophet . From there I went on to Grant’s Memoirs , which are incredibly…
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and Chrysippus the Stoic. Heraclitus is another great biography. All of these vary in length. Zeno is over 150 pages, Herillus (not to be confused with Heraclitus) is 2 pages. But…
Blog What I’m Reading Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity – Kerry Cohen (short, but interesting.) McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (thought it would focus…
ve read in a long time. good anecdotes on Roman bloodsports. it’s online ) Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (he has the amazing ability to write in the present, even about events…
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ff up on Wikipedia. With Military History, for instance, a sense of the battlefield is often necessary. Wikipedia is a great place to grab maps and to help understand the terrain.…
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d me with my immediate problems–helped me see some perspective about my romantic woes and helped me realize there was no reason to resent these people I was living with. But more…
ss a more glaring example of a writer so totally failed by their editors. So if anyone has any good science books, I’d love to hear about them. I’m just starting out so they’ll…
in terms of an author I’d never heard of taking a subject I don’t care about and making it AWESOME? This book deserves to be talked about in the same breath. The Civil War I went…
Miller/dp/0375701737"> Lincoln’s Virtues by William Lee Miller which was heart wrenching and amazing. I truly loved both books he wrote on Lincoln. I also wrote a paean on the joy…
We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever by Benjamin Mee (interesting) The Gulf War…
ment”, et al. A nice example is foreign policy. A president might say he wants to increase our “prestige” abroad. What does that even mean? As far as I can tell it means nothing,…
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techniques to the music business and eventually built his empire. A true hustler, he never did only one thing — from music to fashion to sports, Jay dominated each field, always…
Blog What I’m Reading The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Grandmaster Flash (not everybody famous deserves a memoir) Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture…
ple. You can read the classics and not always understand the lessons. But if you read the The 48 Laws , I promise you will leave not just with actionable lessons but an indelible…
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n to your life. That is why Montaigne is so special. It also makes him timely and interestingly connected to Tim and Seth Robert’s work on self-experimentation. However, one thing…
obstacle , no matter how dire the situation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X . I forget who said it but I heard someone say that Catcher in the…
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e sound of her own voice, interspersing the occasional scientific anecdote between the constant sodomy of puns and allusions. “Ooooh, maybe if I use the word pernicious again…
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8217; philosophy. Hadot says that Marcus worked to create a core that fate, hysterics, vice and outside influences could never penetrate. And that he wrote to himself to…
orter (1885) and Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin (plus his WWII article which is the best essay I’ve ever read). Fiction-wise, I read all of…
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helangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael Titian and all the other great minds of the Renaissance sat down in 1550 and wrote biographical sketches of the people he knew or had influenced him.…
The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan The Fish that Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor Frankl The…
US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man – Charlie LeDuff (Charlie feels like Hunter S Thompson and Philalawyer mixed together. good book) Wasted: A Memoir of…
ion of the incentives faced by generals and politicians. you should read this) Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas (doesn’t have the conclusion the book…
Natural History, Volume III, Books 8-11 by Pliny the Elder (8-11 are the books about zoology and animals. it is the funniest book I have read in a long time. good anecdotes on…
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The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian (Arrian is the student of transcribed Epictetus’ lectures. His book on Alexander is surprisingly fair) Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic:…
rget="_blank"> Essays , and The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives . His book On Sparta is also a collection of biographies (and aphorisms) from the famous Spartans. There is a reason…
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h adversity. Fate will intervene in ways you would never expect. Which is why you absolutely must read Graham’s memoir. After the tragic suicide of her husband, who ran the The…
s last year when I read Sherman by B.H Liddell Hart (and recommended as a favorite). I came to admire Sherman so deeply that I read two more books about him: Sherman’s Memoirs and…
strong>by Malcolm X . I forget who said it but I heard someone say that Catcher in the Rye was to young white boys what The Autobiography of Malcolm X was to young black boys.…
Blog What I’ve Been Reading US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man – Charlie LeDuff (Charlie feels like Hunter S Thompson and Philalawyer mixed together. good…
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What I’m Reading The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Grandmaster Flash (not everybody famous deserves a memoir) Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became…
In the last few weeks I read biographies or memoirs of: Fidel Castro , Toussaint Louverture , PT Barnum , Martin Luther , Langston Hughes , Arnold Rothstein , Wyatt Earp , George…
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In the middle of a research binge for Robert Greene . I’ve never read this many books in my life. 6 in one week was my previous record and yesterday finished my 10th since the…
hat you do might not need to be scaled – you might be enough. But that takes time, effort and constant experimentation. Other reading: The Rule of Five – John Robb (blog post)…
books, they don’t know about the 20 years he spent in obscurity, working something like 80 different jobs — most of which he hated—where he was at the mercy of horrible bosses. As…
N/014243762X/streamjackieg-20">Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (reread) The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom (looks at why poets write the way they…
ights Movement. It was Martin Luther King Jr. who came to Washington in 1963 to ‘cash a check,’ to redeem that promise first made in the Declaration of Independence. Influenced by…
o—both respect and disgust in fact. It’s hard to wrap your head around a man who was so brave, yet often so petty. He was a constant violator of the final law of power: assume…
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ct from their power however. (2) I can’t write a sentence without thinking of Orwell, who believed writing should be ‘precise and spare’ (3). As an aside, Ryan Holiday, whether he…
Cooper March 16, 2013 at 7:20 pm This is off-topic, but have you checked out the book Quiet : The Power of Introverts (…
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in 1890 and ultimately inspired a lot of great stream-of-consciousness writing since (but influence goes unacknowledged because Knut was a Nazi sympathizer). Letters from a…
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Blog What I’m Reading Spin : How to Turn the Power of the Press to Your Advantage by Michael Sitrick (good, surprisingly relevant considering it was written almost 10 years ago)…
3>How-to & Advice The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene . It is impossible to describe this book and do it justice. But if you plan on living life on your terms, climbing as high…
yourself that. Constantly. — Somewhat related, the NASCAR driver and student of Stoicism, Brad Keselowski, talked about what distinguishes a professional in his field (and it…
got glaring strategic flaws in it. Why? Because you’re too caught up in your own vision to see what can go wrong, to see where you’ve been overly optimistic, to accept how little…
ost Seductive City by John Buntin This is not related to the video game. It is an excellent book about Los Angeles, crime, the police force and it’s dark period of the 30s, 40s…
t Happened — LP La Lumiere A short, 6 page paper about Aquatic Ape Theory . The idea is that a some point in evolutionary history a group of apes were stranded on an island and…
>–Laura Sessions Stepp Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning –Viktor Frankl The Prince –Machiavelli (2x) What Makes Sammy Run –Bud Schulberg And the Sea Will Tell –Vincent Bugliosi…
bid, something better. As Mike Davis points out, Los Angeles once had a world famous stone arch which celebrated the entrance to the Selig Zoo . Every child in the city had seen…
7;m Reading Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity – Kerry Cohen (short, but interesting.) McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (thought it would focus more on…
kind of strategist, which is why his book is so important. Most of us won’t find ourselves leading armies anytime soon. As a swordsman, Musashi fought mostly by himself, for…
or Ultimate Meaning –Viktor Frankl The Prince –Machiavelli (2x) What Makes Sammy Run –Bud Schulberg And the Sea Will Tell –Vincent Bugliosi Reveille for Radicals –Saul D. Alinsky…
dset I was in 2-3 years ago and wanted to crack into the industry(ies). Or, let’s say I got fired and had to start completely over. Henry Copeland said we’re in a post-media…
o – Bret Easton Ellis – Only in American: Life and Crimes of Don King – Jack Newfield – The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source – Eric S Raymond – Bambi vs…
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t’s almost as if she’s able to step outside herself and write from a perspective hovering above.) The Myth of the Robber Barons – Burton W. Folsom (sort of cheesy self-published…
hange behavior. We can have big aims, but get there with little moves. This book has excellent examples of that kind of thinking and how it is changing politics, government and…
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nd and place yourself in a reality you may not approve of or even care about. That is, to empathize . Yahoo is a 20 billion dollar company. What are they supposed to do? Quit? The…
xer who ever lived–wrote for a French newspaper in 1911. It’s not very long but it is full of really interesting strategies and anecdotes. You get the sense that he was an…
a genius plan and then committing to it. In fact, this is often a recipe for disaster, particularly in business. Though success often requires a total investment in a particular…
ph Heath (nice counter to Klein. adbusters having a shoe is the most hypocritical thing I have ever heard) Winning at Retail: Developing a Sustained Model for Retail Success by…
#8211;and that the future is providing things that tell a story. A marketer is the person that transforms a product into an authentic lie (contradiction on purpose) that provides…
e"> August 6, 2008 at 11:29 pm David Ogilvy, who worked in the 50s-70s, had basically the exactly opposite stance (from Helen Woodward). I’m pasting one of his several…
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Blog What I’m Reading Joan of Arc: Her Story by Régine Pernoud Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work–And Why Your Company Needs Them by Peter Shankman (good premise, the…
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uggling with a business or just office politics. I can’t say much more than read these books. It’s a must. The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald If you like Asylum , read The Crack…
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ld be an economics primer but really it’s mostly just a collection of the commonly held beliefs of modern economists) Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams…
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ce force and it’s dark period of the 30s, 40s and 50s. I prefer some of the primary sources but this book is great, especially the parts about gangsters like Mickey Cohen. I saw…
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only dates back to the 1950s) or restaurants like The Original Pantry, which has been open every single day since 1924. If you think I am overstating the economic impact of…
e not learning as much as you can. I really like Tyler’s books as well, including Average is Over , The Complacent Class and Discover Your Inner Economist . I listen…
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nally, running and swimming work for me.) -Have a model in mind, even if you’re doing something totally new (read The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry if you’re interested…
in and that Fante lived just down the road from where I lived. NO fiction writer made a bigger impact on me this year and there were no book I enjoyed reading more (or read…
17;s a 250 page blog post (that is awful). It is also proof that most bloggers shouldn’t be given publishing deals and that Women’s Studies is without a doubt the least scholarly…
American Dream. You can’t read anything about the ’20s and ’30s that doesn’t comment on Babbitt (sold 130,000 copies its first year, HL Mencken loved it, it won Lewis a Nobel…
rt Greene introduced me to. I write the information on the card , and the theme/category on the top right corner. As he figured out, being able to shuffle and move the cards into…
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being more honest and direct than an American might be. He was articulating what many people in today’s world seem to assume: that official authorization is required to learn new…
Blog What I’m Reading Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn (writers live interesting lives) Hating Women: America’s Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex by Shmuley…
you’ll explode if you don’t get it all down, if your back is to the wall–then congratulations, it sounds like you’ve got a book in you. Some tips: -Writing a book is not sitting…
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you until you buy it yourself. I’m not letting you borrow my copy. (My grandfather used to put his address labels in books–I still have a few of his copies. It isn’t my style, but…
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. Psychologists, artists, neuroscientists and writers and even hedge fund managers seem to do the same ( http://bit.ly/dalioprinciples ). But whats remarkable is that the message…
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learning is turned into knowledge . And knowledge requires more than just books and instruction. It requires experience. It needs the interplay–the back and forth feedback…
leading scientists what they wish the public knew about their field. Execution: Writer joylessly pleasures herself to the sound of her own voice, interspersing the occasional…
>Blog The Dress-Suit Bribe There’s a theme in the works of Upton Sinclair called the “dress-suit bribe” which he returns to over and over. It’s the the name of a play written by a…
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de you or your company. A nice example is to monitor the writing of any Gawker writer – see how often one day’s post will contradict the one that came before it. That’s because…
rite a screenplay with a dying F. Scott Fitzgerald. All you need to know about Schulberg’s writing is captured in this quote from his obituary: “It’s the writer’s responsibility…
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d avoid being controlled by others, then you need to read this book. Robert is an amazing researcher and storyteller — he has a profound ability to explain timeless truths through…
– Charlie LeDuff (Charlie feels like Hunter S Thompson and Philalawyer mixed together. good book) Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia – Marya Hornbacher (very rarely do you…
But they say the opposite all the time, they say “Goddamn, that’s good” to things with typos, poor grammar and simple diction. Good writing saves nothing. On the other hand, a…
I ever got was to–before I started the process–articulate the idea in one sentence, one paragraph and one page. This crystallizes the idea for you and guides you on your way.…
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iday/"> BurkeNCSU May 28, 2007 at 4:30 pm I’d highly recommend T.E. Lawrence’s “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” , or if you don’t have the time, read “The Miltary Writings of T.E.…
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ls ever took time to be out by themselves and reflect, apart from their girlfriends. They swarmed in clusters on the quad, in the coffe shop and in the dorm–piling in threes and…
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Fidel Castro , Toussaint Louverture , PT Barnum , Martin Luther , Langston Hughes , Arnold Rothstein , Wyatt Earp , George Washington , Seneca , Sammy Davis Jr , Jesus , Saul…
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You, the writer, don’t relate to the world as a writer—you relate to the world as you. The world relates to you and your writing. For [writer], plug in entrepreneur, expert,…
Fall of Truth in Bush’s America by Frank Rich It’s a shame that a book about story and spectacle would be so poorly structured and without message. The book has a fantastic title…
to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other…
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dless traveler who self-checks bags) and is aware enough to admit that that sets her apart from fellow travelers. Finally, she proposes one last addition in case airports are ever…
eal with something doesn’t change whether you in fact need to. It reminds me of something my parents told me when I was learning to drive: It doesn’t matter that you had the right…
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Below are some lessons from one of my favorite books. If Cyrus the Great can give us 9 Lessons On Power And Leadership From Genghis Khan , why can’t pithy advice on virtues and…
any pages in a book as I have in this one in quite some time. Of course, the classic in this genre of letters is Letters From A Self Made Merchant To His Son . Dating back to…
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ed, covered in incomprehensible gibberish in A Beautiful Mind , or the wall in Carrie Mathison’s apartment after a manic fit. And then I wake from my stupor and discard the songs…
His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. by Geraldo Rivera (actually a very intelligent book) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (again. might be my favorite book…
own problems. The reality is that Napoleonic warfare does not exactly have its equivalents in today’s society. On the other hand, Sun-Tzu is so aphoristic that it’s hard to say…
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10/15 In the middle of a research binge for Robert Greene . I’ve never read this many books in my life. 6 in one week was my previous record and yesterday finished my 10th since…
youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins. Travelling is a fool’s paradise. Our first…
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h in the book–that man’s consciousness didn’t evolve until roughly 5,000 BC and that our notion of God comes from our pre-conscious mind–isn’t widely accepted, but I believe it.…
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n your head. Even just catching a glance of a title as I walk through the room is a enough sometimes to bring not just the content of the book back into my mind but where I was…
s/ASIN/0815410263/streamjackieg-20">The Hustons by Lawrence Grobel (long but very good. about the director John Huston ) The Age of the Moguls by Stewart H. Holbrook The Uncrowned…
fortune suitably.” When success arrives, ego begins to toy with our minds and weaken what made us win in the first place. This is the worst thing that can happen, because things…
trategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim (GREAT. these themes ) History of My Times – Xenophon (great. tons of great…
Radical Reconstruction by Lebbeus Woods (this book is stunning and mind-blowing way of looking at architecture. his ideas for rebuilding Kosovo seem…human but aspirational at the…
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"http://geni.us/ktze"> the letters between him and his rhetoric teacher, Cornelius Fronto ? The Stoics might say that such an event was “fated” but I’d say we are incredibly lucky…
s book is stunning and mind-blowing way of looking at architecture. his ideas for rebuilding Kosovo seem…human but aspirational at the same time. Great NYT article on Lebbeus)…
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-Signet-Classics/dp/0451465644"> It Can’t Happen Here (because, well, it may have just happened here). To balance out that depressing book, I highly recommend David Brooks’ The…
optimistic, to accept how little you control. Pairing this book with some of the books on war is a good idea. It will humble you and keep you conservative–which all good…
their attackers and then retreating immediately back to the safety of the shape. And thus they were completely impenetrable, able to travel fluidly and slowly demoralize the…
n: If I could only recommend 3 books from 2011, what would I pick? I couldn’t actually narrow it down to 3 exactly , but I tried my best. Below are the my favorite books for the…
I like to stop and assess and compare. Where was I a year ago? I remember moving into my new place just days after being dumped. Everything felt cold and empty. All I recall is…
re. So I read many more, to learn bits, but haven’t in years experienced a “view quake.” That is sad, to me at least, but I don’t know how to avoid how that has turned out. So…
nd a douchebag? A douchebag is that person with a delusional sense of self-worth, a lack of self-awareness, tact–an idiot. They are clueless but assertive; an asshole without…
to success is strategically along the line of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance . It is that kind of thinking that immediately displaces any…
like to wake each morning without bemoaning a single person on my life and I just won’t wait for you to change. Like Aurelius said, I must winnow my thoughts, focus my focus. To…
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s contemporaries. I even found out one of his novels is set in the random Northern California town I grew up in and that Fante lived just down the road from where I lived. NO…
udd Schulberg (again) – My Year Inside Radical Islam – Daveed Gartestein-Ross – The Essential Difference: The Truth About Autism – Simon Baron-Cohen – Work and Other Sins –…
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div> In a conversation with a friend, someone I’ve never liked much came up and before I could verbalize that, they proceeded to tell me something very nice that person had said…
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er is a true story but reads essentially like fiction). The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler . Duddy is the ultimate Jewish hustler, always working, always…
the story of a smile. If ever a man won by nothing more fatiguing than a smile, Johnson won today.” Company K by William March Far and away the best book ever written about WWI.…
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ook’s study of the future of music industry (and really, all creative businesses) in his book The Song Machine ; Cass Sunstein’s book T he World According to Star Wars is another…
>The Lady in the Lake , Playback , The Long Goodbye , Trouble is My Business , The High Window , The Little Sister , Farewell My Lovely , and The Simple Art of Murder . Also read…
whatever we were doing was right , that we were winning… And that, I think, was the handle–that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or…
, but since then I have been struggling a bit. I keep getting bogged down in some less than interesting stuff or distracted by school and work. I’d appreciate it if anyone has any…
ty: Disgust, Shame, and the Law by Martha C. Nussbaum (sort of just flipping through it at this point) Spin-Free Economics by Nariman Behravesh (I was kind of hoping this would be…
ooks in order of my favorites: The Big Sleep , The Lady in the Lake , Playback , The Long Goodbye , Trouble is My Business , The High Window , The Little Sister , Farewell My…
Blog What I’m Reading His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S. by Geraldo Rivera (actually a very intelligent book) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (again.…
vorite categories of books I like to recommend : moral biographies. That is, short biographical sketches about great men and women in history, written with an eye towards…
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fault for a drunk driver. John Konrad August 6, 2012 at 12:06 am Tom, I can’t speak for Ryan but I have been quoted on frontpage NYTimes stories and articles for countless other…
, entertaining world. That it also happens to hold great insight about life, power, and people is extra. Chandler never forgot that. It’s why you should read him—you’ll be…
nt-weight: 400;">, ultimately, a warning against being consumed by revenge. Please—if you’re going on a long trip or looking to check out of modern events for a while—get this…
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he full geography of Los Angeles county from the old gambling boats off Santa Monica to Pasadena to Riverside to Big Bear Lake. Chandler often changes the names but it doesn’t…
ce: A Theory of Poetry by Harold Bloom (looks at why poets write the way they do, has a premise that with the exception of Shakespeare, no poet has ever completely surpassed their…
why you should read him—you’ll be captivated and learn about the city, about people and about the time period. He too covers the full geography of Los Angeles county from the old…
ght of what was done to him, the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s return, his rants against technology, the criticism of newspapers, the influence of ancient philosophy , ultimately, a…
layback , The Long Goodbye , Trouble is My Business , The High Window , The Little Sister , Farewell My Lovely , and The Simple Art of Murder . Also read and liked: Raymond…
lex system for organizing and distributing what I’d discovered. It’s funny because I actually have a horrible memory. I’ll often hear someone finish a story and realize I don’t…
hat there may be more books to follow. In terms of other surprising memoirs, I found JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy to be another well-written gem and despite its popularity, When…
that power and drive can have. The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg and The Crack Up & The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald . The Disenchanted and The Crack Up are both about the…
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ke and remnants never disappear. Goethe was born in 1749, wrote his first bestseller which contained those words in 1774 before America was a country, and would live well into the…
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Blog Cannibals and Kings In Cannibals and Kings , Marvin Harris talks about differences between expansive and collapsing cultures. He said that it’s not too hard for a king to…
n.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400063515/streamjackieg-20">The Black Swan , Taleb caught me doing something stupid. He said that only an idiot walks into someone’s library and says “Have…
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Blog What I’m Reading The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science – Natalie Angier Inspired premise: Writer asks leading scientists what they wish the public…
ces he would document in 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , Mastery , and The Laws of Human Nature . So I decided I would make the absolute most of every moment while I was…
of this cheaply. I had one lined up but it fell through. I can’t believe I should have to pay $100 for a book about elephants just because the publisher is stupid. if anyone can…
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and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will…
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ll by Tom Wolfe and What Makes Sammy Run by Bud Schulberg. Check them here. My favorites: “Usually, the very first thing I think about when I get on a case and begin to learn the…
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deeply personal issues. I’ve given citations for kids to use in research papers on everything from decentralized warfare and aestheticism. And I don’t know if you remember, but…
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to Repay Your Enemies How do you repay the people who fucked you over? It is a little harder to get into one post just because there are so many ways that people can wrong you.…
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know you’re all very busy people and I imagine only a few of you ended up reading more than a handful of them. Don’t worry, that’s on me and not on you. Thankfully, Charlie Hoehn…
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> “The con man does give you something. It is a sense of your own worthlessness. A good question to ask: “Does this event exist without me?” If the answer is no, leave. You are…
the plot’s simple: an innocent man caught up in Aaron Burr’s treasonous conspiracy stands trial for his actions. When asked to address the judge, he bitterly remarks that he…
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you’re a billionaire, a millionaire, or just a kid who snagged a good job early. The complete and utter sense of certainty that got you here can become a liability if you’re not…
or have no real use for. When I moved I got rid of two full boxes…which I have subsequently replaced with better stuff. -Don’t loan. If I LOVE a book enough that I want you to…
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en anyone send. Ever. He did exactly what you’re supposed to do – he researched and made a personal connection. Not that he needs my help, but he was cool about it so I had no…
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s even possible for a generation educated in a new paradigm to understand the assumptions taken seriously in the paradigm that came before. In a way, this is exactly the kind of…
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efer that latter over the former. I would much rather read about and emulate a man who is born into adversity and pain, struggles with criminality, does prison time, teaches…
gh other people’s libraries. I have a standing arrangement with one of my friends who has a lot of books–if I see something I like (and he hasn’t marked up the copy), I take it…
up and print it out). -Technology is great, don’t get me wrong. But some things should take effort. Personally, I’d much rather adhere to the system that worked for guys like…
he top right corner. As he figured out, being able to shuffle and move the cards into different groups is crucial to getting the most out of them. Ronald Reagan actually kept…
blessings. Instead, it was this: “That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it…
ooks paid the rent on both those houses. They kept me sane, they made me a lot of money. The purpose of reading is not just raw knowledge. It’s that it is part of the human…
ource=bookclip"> Bad Stuff Full Frontal Feminism — Jessica Valenti Saying that this is an awful book is really unfair because it’s not even a book. It’s a 250 page blog post (that…
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v> I suppose it is a contradiction that someone like me who so firmly guards against the narrative fallacy would be such a deep believer in hallowed ground. But I am. See, those…
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Blog What I’m Reading 10/15 In the middle of a research binge for Robert Greene . I’ve never read this many books in my life. 6 in one week was my previous record and yesterday…
w decades later they found most of the animals in a junkyard in Fontana. Can you imagine this happening to the lions of the of the Central Park Library? Only LA could wipe out…
e Billionaire Boys Club with a group of friends. Living the high life in Los Angeles they eat at the best restaurants and shop at the best stores. They lived in one of the high…
school and work. I’d appreciate it if anyone has any recommendations (and I don’t mean that patronizingly, I almost ALWAYS read what people suggest, first throwing them up on my…
ame, more generous, more pious, more dedicated to making a difference. Does that excuse the “awful” things that he did? Well, the things he did really weren’t that awful so yes.…
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it’s easier to keep a Google Doc or an Evernote project of your favorite quotes…but easy has got nothing to do with this. As Raymond Chandler put it, “When you have to use your…
el Punke’s The Revenant , about a man who bravely challenged his fate in the wilderness just as Edmond Dantes did in prison. This year I also re-read Walker Percy’s Lancelot , a…
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Islam – Daveed Gartestein-Ross – The Essential Difference: The Truth About Autism – Simon Baron-Cohen – Work and Other Sins – Charlie LeDuff – Black Brothers, Inc. : The Violent…
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tion and increasing the incentive to report and decreases the necessity of murdering your partner. Of course, this provides the paradox we see with the 3 Strikes Laws–it might…
. I think you can see from list that I had a clear plan of attack. I was deep diving into a subject and surrounding it from all angles. I didn’t want to simply understand it from…
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ng the operation to the levels it ultimately reached. I feel like that throwaway writeup of Virchow is about the highest descriptive achievement someone can accomplish. To be…
Endangers Every Student –Anonymous MD The Road –Cormac McCarthy Anabasis –Xenophon Which Lie Did I Tell: Adventures in Screentrade –William Goldman Hit and Run –Nancy Griffin My…
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and The Simple Art of Murder . Also read and liked: Raymond Chandler Speaking , Chandlertown , and Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles (which has some excellent photos). Southern…
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t overlook simple solutions. There’s a tendency—especially when you care a lot about something—to overthink it. To assume everything has to be big, polished, expensive,…
rts. But what if you’d never heard it? Your life remains utterly unchanged by these moments. The mistakes you’re aware of, but can do nothing about, pale in comparison to the…
haven’t built up the ability to sit quietly and work with great focus to develop deep, creative insights—the next few decades are going to be very difficult for you. I really…
eight: 400;">I get it. This might all seem like a bit much. I was intimidated by journaling too. And people, I find, tend to intimidate themselves about it: What’s the best way to…
ry"> “When we renounce our dreams we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and infect the whole atmosphere in which we…
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d original translations for the passages he quotes—but sadly he died without publishing a full translation of Marcus for wider consumption. -It was in reading Hadot that I first…
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atGPT is inhuman. A hurricane is inhuman. Torture is inhuman. With a passage like this, I’ve come to find it helpful to look at various translations. In his great annotated…
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” should be used sparingly because it’s often actually just stupidity in disguise. 20, 21 & 22. The Big Con: The Story of Confidence Men , Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical…
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New book quotes from Dr. Drew and Robert Evans: “Getting into action generates inspiration. Don’t cop out waiting for inspiration to get you back into action. It won’t! …I leave…
rt, the rhino was ignored aside from obscure cameos in papal art. For instance, the rhinoceros is seen grazing behind Joesph, Jesus’ father in a Granacci painting. From there, no…
r Skelter –Vincent Bugliosi Man’s Search for Meaning –Viktor Frankl (Again) Words that Work :It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear –Frank Luntz Unhooked: Why young women…
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es (it’s a bargain book so it wasn’t a waste but I was hoping for some urban anthropology and this is not it) Peter the Great by Vasili Klyuchevsky (very dry but interesting) The…
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make the time you can and that you pick the right books when you do. They are books that I and the 70,000 readers on my reading list email have enjoyed and learned from. If they…
ck, there is very little reason to check my phone in the morning besides maybe my calendar—but I try to do that the night before. I don’t keep Facebook on my phone and I don’t use…
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen The book sucked me in completely. The subject, Samuel Zemurray, is fascinating and…
becomes one where it’s irrational to set out and pay dues – to try and earn the illusion. Don’t buy the cow, the saying goes, if you can get the milk for free. The precipitous…
iv class="blog-category"> Blog What I’m Reading Eleanor Roosevelt : Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook (blown away by ER. she deserved a better…
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ank"> Antifragile that every sentence in the book was a “derivation, an application or an interpretation of the short maxim” he opened with. THAT is why you want to get your…
/a> by Daniel J. Solove (decent, mainly cliche anecdotes) The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis How Judges Think by Richard Posner (frankly, this book was disappointing. i…
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we tend to actually accomplish them. This is because—and I’m sure you can think of a person in your life who does this a lot—the act of articulating the goal entails visualizing…
ideologies, both are experts in influencing and leading public perception through image and words. It actually matters whether we’re talking about illegal immigrants or…
ec/obidos/ASIN/0061136786/streamjackieg-20">The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood’s Wild Animal Stars by Ralph Helfer (continuing my disturbing obsession) The Voyage…
tudies the downsides of the desire to “be somebody” in this world. How do you manage ambition? How do you manage envy? How do you avoid the traps that so many other people fall…
ek out, year in and year out. Nor is publishing the only industry that has this trend or this concept. In 2015, “catalog albums”—albums 18 months or older— outsold all new…
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t always even need to physically step in these places or, if I do, spend more than just a few moments. I’ve driven slowly through the streets of old Birmingham, I didn’t really…
cover the expenses of Hanno , the cause which Luther later used to start the reformation. I also named my puppy after it. Wikinomics — Don Tapscott Great book. Probably should…
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eople suggest, first throwing them up on my Amazon Wishlist to track what’s next. Check it here . Anyways, here’s what I’ve done since the last list: ‘Till Death Do Us Part…
in 13 championships in multiple cities if you’re not. What’s interesting about Jackson’s approach is how eastern it is–he guides by giving up control, he leads by encouraging…
div> Been on a tear lately. All these are worth reading. If you don’t have an Amazon Prime membership, you’re wasting time and money. – What Makes Sammy Run – Budd Schulberg…
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I posted the books I’d read from Sept 15th to March 30th, but since then I have been struggling a bit. I keep getting bogged down in some less than interesting stuff or distracted…