Talking to Strangers is recent, relevant, and masterfully presented. I'm upset I waited this long to read something by Malcolm Gladwell. In the last few years, our politically charged climate has given way to discussions of race and police brutality, a conversation that returned to [...]
Brandon Sanderson’s well-loved epic is a little too long and overdone for its own good. The world is huge, interesting, and filled with vibrant characters, a rich history, and a cool magic system. If you’re a fantasy lover, you’ll really dig the world-building. But there’s [...]
The Queen of Vulnerability recommends reading her book The Gifts of Imperfection first, but I found it lacked the substance to be worth the price of admission. Don’t get me wrong. There are good principles here, and the occasional helpful concrete actionable item. But overall, [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s CRUSH IT! offers a punchy, concise, and inspiring - albeit sometimes dated - approach to finding success in the new media. Rewind 12 years. It’s 2009, and sites like Facebook and YouTube are huge - but they’ve still only been around for 3 [...]
I Used to be a Miserable F*** has the potential to help men wake up and grow up - and grown men are something the world always needs. Yep, another book with an f-bomb in the title. I can feel the judgement coming. Actually, [...]
Any good book, fiction or non, is going to inspire you. Fiction does it through made-up stories. The best non-fiction books use stories as well - but real ones. Power of Habit does just that. As someone who loves stories and is writing his own [...]
Growing up, I couldn’t stand wearing certain clothes. Especially if you left the tags on. They were just irritable - I could feel them more. I was shy, obedient, and unassuming. I also always had a sense that I was different than other people. Fast [...]
Since you probably won’t be able to do all the summer things you normally do, you owe it to yourself to make good use of some extra personal development time. Here are 5 books I think are particularly relevant reads for your COVID season. Note: [...]
Narrative Therapy - it’s a thing. Understand your life as a story, complete with beginning, denouement, climax, and all the conflict in between. Like any good story that’s not a tragedy (and even tragedies to some extent), our lives have redemption and purpose. Such is [...]
This is a brief review of the books Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. Content Warning: The trilogy is pretty violent, and there’s a decent amount of vulgar language in it. So while I’m about to recommend a great trilogy for its suspense and [...]
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