Category: Reading
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Is Your Manager a Grinch?
Get them the perfect stocking suffer: my book, People Management from the Ground Up. Reading it may or may not cause their heart to grow two sizes, but it will help them balance their many responsibilities. That’s a recipe for a more joyous season for all. This book isn’t just for Grinchy managers; it’s for…
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Reading Recap: November 2024
Back on track with five down in November and only five more to go in December to hit my goal of 60 books in 2024! Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris The sheer size of this book is intimidating, but I actually found it to be one of my easiest reads of the year. Short…
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Reading Recap: October 2024
I fell a little off my five books a month pace this month, but I am still on target for 60 with 10 books left to go in the remainder of 2024. All four of these books were great reads that I recommend. More to come in the deep dive. Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman,…
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Reading Recap: September 2024
🧑⚕️Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich A series of essays arguing that professional societies make individuals less able to understand certain decisions. This lessens our individual agency and we become dependent on professionals. Professional societies sustain their relevance through a cycle on increasing complexity which requires us to rely on them more and more. 🎢Thrillville U.S.A.…
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Reading Recap: August 2024
A quick summary of the books I read this past month. I will do a deep dive later this month. On the road to 60 it’s 41 down, 19+ to go. 🤫Quiet Leadership by David Rock Drive workplace performance by changing how we and our colleagues think. Coaching techniques to help others change their own…
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Transposition of Discomfort
Establishing new habits and routines is hard. It is common to feel some mental resistance when you try to take action on your new practice. When I talk with people about building a reading practice, they often comment that it is hard to focus and make progress on reading if they have not been doing…
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Reading Recap: July 2024
🌳An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Just when you get used to a situation, things change. A compelling story that shows that no matter where you are in life, systemic oppression can take you down. People are imperfect and don’t turn out how you might expect. A happy life can be complicated. 💗10 Poems to…
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Reading Recap: June 2024
🎭Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini Starting with facial recognition accuracy leading into intersectionality and systemic bias. Already oppressed groups can be further excoded by AI systems. Neutral does not mean unbiased. Why should we trust closed AI systems let loose on society? On…
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Reading Recap: May 2024
💸The Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann The more you give of yourself to help others, the more that comes back to reward you. A short, fun read that inspires and educates. 🪕Born Standing Up by Steve Martin An overnight success; decades in the making.…
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The Power of Nuance
David Epstein’s book, Range, highlights how a broad set of experiences helps us drive innovation. Knowledge in different domains enables us to make analogies to describe new and unexplored territory. Epstein doesn’t specifically call out vocabulary, but I believe an extensive repository of words helps us build the analogies necessary to explain the yet unknown.…