Books I’ve Been Reading

When the Music Changes [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

When the Music Changes by Elfreda Massie is not the sort of book I would typically pick up and read. I tend to gravitate toward the heady, rather than the spiritual. And in fact, I would say on most occasions, I outright avoid books with a proclivity toward religious...

Our Revolution [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders is the story of Sander’s run for president, and the detailed unpacking of his policy positions that couldn’t possibly have been conveyed through the 8 second sound bites the media wanted from him at the time. It’s a...

Flatland [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Can you imagine what it’d be like to live in two dimensions instead of three? Probably kind of. Of course, that imagination is contaminated with all kinds of three dimensional thinking, you still get the idea. How about four dimensions though? I’ll bet that’s almost...

Why Photographers Need to Know The Language of Visual Art: A Review of Perception & Imaging

by William | Book Reviews, Thoughts

Perception and Imaging: Photography–A Way of Seeing is a book of the sort that all photographers should read. Especially aspiring photographers. Perception and Imaging is basically an academic text book, but I’m not being smug when I say that aspiring...

Ego Is The Enemy [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Ego Is The Enemy, by Ryan Holiday, reminded me a little bit of the daily devotional books I used to read as a christian. Short chapters, succinct messages. If you’re looking for them, you’ll probably find applications for nearly every chapter, every day....

What EveryBODY is Saying [Review]

by William | Book Reviews, Reviews

What EveryBODY Is Saying by Joe Navarro is a book about body language. Yes, it’s probably the same book that guest on Fox News read right before confidently spouting a bunch of bullshit about how Obama was definitely lying because he took his hands out of his...

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz is an irreverent guide to getting a business up and running without the formal advantages most other business books assume you’ll have. The title comes from that moment in the bathroom when you realize...

Profit First [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Let me start by saying, I am not a money guru. I almost never think about it, except when I don’t have enough. I’ve hobbled through my personal and business finances for years, never fully recovering from stupid mistakes a teenager made in my name, but not...

The Confidence Gap [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

I’ve always had a sense that confidence played a bigger part in things than the textbooks were letting on. Of all the strangenesses of the human mind, “confidence” (yes, with suspicious quotes, too) is perhaps the most interesting to me. I generally...

The Happiness Hypothesis [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt is a book about something almost anyone with a religious background and a growing interest in science and psychology has probably wondered about. If you read almost any ancient religious text, you’ll find an awful lot...