Category: Book Reviews
“Think Like A Freak” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner If you’ve read the Freakonomics books, you’ll know that “thinking like a freak” often means going against conventional wisdom. This new book – Think Like A Freak – hammers home the idea that our biases and current set of beliefs color our decision-making more than …
Life in Hugh Howey’s “silo” world Generations ago, the world suffered an upheaval of some kind. Everything about the “old world” has been forgotten, the memories obliterated. Your current world in an underground silo is all that exists… as far as you know. If you were born and lived your whole life in the lower third …
I read The Hunger Games trilogy from two perspectives: that of senior citizen… and also a 1960s hippie. I was impressed on both counts. I may be a senior citizen now, but I’m also a counterculture hippie-type person from the 60s. So I read and then reviewed The Hunger Games trilogy from two perspectives. Old fogey me …
Thom Hartmann reviews the “cycles of crisis” in the U.S. since the American Revolution In The Crash of 2016, Thom Hartmann documents why it is no longer wise to put faith in most elected politicians, or in our once-trusted institutions, especially the public media, banks, universities and the Supreme Court. Maybe I’m more naive than most people, seeing a …
Why would Mike Rowe write a “fake” book? Mike Rowe calls Profoundly Disconnected a “fake book” containing just one single paragraph. Well, that’s true…and it isn’t. If you’ve seen Mike Rowe’s television show “Dirty Jobs,” you’ll know he has a quirky sense of humor, and that comes through loud and clear in his “non-book.” In fact, …
The book Zen Driving taught me to enjoy driving a car again Zen Driving by K. T. Berger is a remarkable book that can change your driving habits, your attitude toward other drivers on the road and, maybe even, your life. The authors are two brothers Kevin, a freelance journalist, and Todd, a California psychotherapist. Between them, they …
Zero to One: Notes on Startups by Peter Thiel “Every moment in business happens only once,” says Peter Thiel in his preface to Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future… and if you’re copying Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Page (Google), or Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), you’ve missed the point. For most people, …
What you need for your dream job or business is… MORE cowbell! The authors of The Cowbell Principle were inspired by – you guessed it – the Saturday Night Live sketch called “More Cowbell,” (YouTube link) featuring Christopher Walken and Will Farrell. In the skit, Walken (playing record producer The Bruce Dickinson) calls for “more cowbell” …
Why I like The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau I appreciate books that push my buttons, making me look at things in new and slightly offbeat ways. The case studies Chris Guillebeau showcases in The $100 Startup are of regular people, mostly in jobs, who unexpectedly found ways to create businesses in unique niches that suited them to …
