Rewiring Education is one of the more interesting books I've read for a while; although to be fair, it is possible there is a lot of confirmation bias, because it lined up with most of what I already think about education. John D. Couch is the VP of Education at Apple. Apple has been involved … Continue reading Book Review: Rewiring Education by Couch, Towne and Wozniak
"Atomic Habits" is a nice, short read. Sometimes you need a break from hefty books like Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile, or Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci. Nonetheless, I found the book interesting and informative. James Clear brings a really good mix of his own personal experience, and relevant science - probably not as thoroughly as … Continue reading Book Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Brad Stone's "The Everything Store: The Age of Amazon" is a very thorough journey through the life of Jeff Bezos, how he created Amazon, and many of the lessons he learned on the way. I'm not sure if the book is an "official" biography, but it is worth a read; if you're anything like me … Continue reading Book Review: The Everything Store by Brad Stone
"Origin Story: a big history of everything" has some overlap with Sapiens, which I reviewed here: both talk a great deal about human history, and seemed to agree on the major points. This book starts a lot further left on the timeline, Sapiens focuses a lot more on the sociology of religion and other common narratives … Continue reading Book Review: Origin Story by David Christian
This week's book was a really inspiring read, it seemed to make a really difficult topic - how to measure your business activities - seem so simple. If it were quite that simple we probably wouldn't need a book though, right? If you've heard about OKRs, you probably know about them because Google uses them. … Continue reading Book Review: Measure What Matters by John Doerr
This book was quite a challenging read, not in the sense that it was poorly written - it was very clearly written - but in the sense that it puts a dent in one's western arrogance. This book talks about the rise of AI technologies, and the rise of China's thriving technology sector; how Chinese … Continue reading Book Review: AI Superpowers by Kai-fu Lee
I listened to this one, and I really enjoyed it. Ray Dalio has a fascinating life story, and he illustrates his principles very clearly by talking about how he came upon each principle. I'm definitely going to have to go back and re-read parts of this book to really put it into application. The book … Continue reading Book Review: Principles on Work and Life by Ray Dalio
The human race, homo sapiens, is an interesting thing: we're the only species to have developed a level of sentience and cognition that allows us to reason about the abstract and deal with the theoretical. Sapiens is a gallop through human history, with some interesting deep-dives into religion, economics, community, and oddly a little futurism. … Continue reading Book Review: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
This one took a while. The first six weeks of the new job were super busy, so instead of a week, this one took me a month to read. I like to think I was living out the premise of this book, and doing the most important things, so reading this book fell down the … Continue reading Book Review: Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Nobody has a cast-iron definition of what it means to be an introvert, but a pretty common symptom seems to be that social interactions are draining. A symptom I would add is a sense of inertia when initiating social interactions with new people. Trouble is, people leadership is all about interacting with people. The Introverted … Continue reading Book Review: The Introverted Leader by Jennifer Kahnweiler
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