Trigger warning: excessive charts and graphs I’ve always been drawn to the “quantified self” movement. Of course, being attracted to an idea has never once given me the discipline to actually implement that idea. Goodreads, however, has been a notable exception. I began consistently logging my reading sometime in 2011...
Priest by Matthew Colville My rating: 5 of 5 stars I figured I’d like this book, but I didn’t expect to fall in love! I didn’t breathe for almost the entire novel, but for diverse reasons. I was lost for much of the time, but in the kind of way...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum My rating: 5 of 5 stars The very premise of this book sets it up for failure; how do you fairly explore the contradictory mess that is the (predominantly online) culture wars while still saying something...
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars Each Sinek book is better than the last. I’ve added this to my ‘required reading’ list for people who consider themselves leaders (or stewards of culture) in the business world. And, now that I think about it, outside...
Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes My rating: 5 of 5 stars Memoirs by comedians are a dime a dozen these days. Most are about comedy through the prism of their career, others are about their career through the prism of comedy. And there’s the rare memoir by a comedian...
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent book for what it is: a look into different ways of doing things. Not just from a theoretical perspective, but from a company that is thriving. As long as you read...
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop My rating: 4 of 5 stars Alternate title: “Stoic Philosophy for People Who Don’t Like Reading Old Texts.“There’s not a ton of new material (naturally, given that stoicism has been around for over two thousand...
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars I consider this book to be Sinek’s redemption for ‘Start with Why.’ I’m a huge fan of his presentations/videos, but ‘Start With Why’ felt lacking; it was a great presentation-length idea that had been stretched out into a...
The Voice of Knowledge by Miguel Ruiz My rating: 5 of 5 stars The thing about age-old wisdom is that it’s been around forever. It’s been around forever because it’s generally on-point, but this creates a marketing problem: how do you keep something like that from becoming a kind of...
Men, Women & Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough by Brené Brown My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m surprised how long it took me to read something by Brown, given how much her TED talk affected me several years ago. This audiobook didn’t disappoint.Brene’s...
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