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 […]
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 […]
If you poke around this blog a bit, it’s clear that I’ve been trying to do more creative stuff in my spare moments. However, I haven’t done any sketchnoting since last year’s Tri-State SHRM conference and – wouldn’t you know it – yesterday was Rhode Island SHRM’s 20th annual conference! […]
Tonight we finished up a series of quests that involved Cothynta, the self-styled “Lady of Fire.” Sharry was compelled (by way of an agreement with a powerful efreeti) to close a rogue series of portals leading to the Plane of Fire. Sharry was still fuming as he wound up the […]
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 […]
Kevin – a first-time player – has been running a monk named Hanya for the past few months. Now that he’s hit 6th level or so, he’s beginning to be effective in combat (monks are strange that way…
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. […]
Friday’s game was pretty significant for Vlad – the character I’ve been playing in my work D&D campaign since (wow) July of 2017. We were finishing up a part of ‘the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish’ adventure, and simply had to defeat the Big Bad Evil Guy to get access to […]
Grant’s trying out the ‘Monastery of the Distressed’ segment from the latest D&D adventure ‘Lost Laboratory of Kwalish’ with one of our West Marches groups at work. This adventure has so many striking visuals that it was hard to choose an…
This morning I received an email from Pocket congratulating me on using their app way too much (I mean, those aren’t the words they used…). They even set up cool personalized landing pages that give an overview of ones stats for the year.
My brain simultaneously…
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