Tag: books
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Review: Brown’s Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts Brene Brown Brown is everywhere now and a force in the world of leadership development / business psychology / personal development. Part self-help guru part executive coach, part cool mom, Brown has hit a certain sweet spot among a certain type ambitiously present upwardly mobile types…
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Review: Harari’s Home Deus
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari The second in Harari’s trilogy on the past and future of our specifics. This isn’t quite as jaw dropping brilliant as Sapiens, but still well worth your time. Sapiens takes all of human history and distills it down to a clear story powered by…
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Review: Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells David Wallace-Wells is here to tell you that not only is climate change very real, it is already worse than you think. Its happening at a rate that we’re not ready for and its effects will be more destructive in more overlapping ways, than you’re probably imaging.…
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Review: Williams’ the Dinosaur Artist
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy Paige Williams I have a friend who categories books such as this as “better as an article” and perhaps there is some truth to that. Williams takes the compelling story she wrote for the New Yorker of a fossil hunter, the government of…
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Review: Newport’s Digital Minimalism
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Cal Newport I’m a big fan of Cal Newport’s work (I’ve read Deep Work, twice). This feels like his best book yet. Part evisceration of social media and what it does to our brains, part guidebook on how to live a less distracted life, this…
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Review: Zelnick’s Becoming Ageless
Becoming Ageless: Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever Strauss Zelnick Part memoir of the super-rich and successful Strauss Zelnick, part guide to aging well, this book is just like many many others that claim to have some new information but are really saying – eat well, exercise regularly, sometimes hard, sometimes easy,…
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Review: Harari’s Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari This book comes with so much hype, and such rave reviews, I was sure I was going to be disappointed. I wasn’t. Harari’s sweeping history of homo-sapiens is riveting from start to finish. The central thesis is simple. What separates us from other species is…
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Review: Tomlisin’s Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America Tommy Tomlinson Tomlisin is a lifelong reporter. It shows in this memoir of eating (and over-eating), love (and loss), and what it means to try to wrestle back a healthy life with a body that is fighting you, in…
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Review: Robinson’s New York 2140
New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson In the New York City one hundred and thirty years in the future, much has changed. Most of coastal Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island is gone. What’s left of downtown Manhattan floods with the tides. The power of the city has moved far uptown to the…
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What Are You Reading? For March 3, 2019 (Feat. Harari’s Sapiens, Newport’s Digital Minimalism and Tomlinson’s Elephant in the Room)
This month, I started a monthly newsletter of book recommendations call “What Are You Reading?”. I’ll be archiving the newsletter here on good old Milo. If you want to sign up for the newsletter head on over here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the inaugural edition of “What Are You Reading?”, a monthly newsletter of book and…
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