I Will Teach You to Be Rich [Review]

by William | Sep 6, 2014

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi is a book about very slowly getting rich. In many ways, it’s almost exactly the opposite set of advice as what you’d find in Timmothy Ferris’ The Four Hour Workweek. You could say Sethi sees life ideally...

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality [Review]

by William | Aug 30, 2014

The Universe in a Single Atom by the 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is a book about the many overlapping parts of Buddhism and modern scientific inquiry. This makes the fourth book I have read from Mr. Lama. The Art of Happiness, In My Own Words, and How...

Ethics for the Real World [Review]

by William | Aug 23, 2014

Ethics for the Real World by Ronald Howard, Clinton Korver & Bill Richard (credited on Amazon), was published in 2008, with the intent to help people to “master ethical distinctions to enable clear ethical thinking…” and to therefore help them...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion [Review]

by William | Aug 18, 2014

Influence, by Robert Cialdini Ph.D., is a book about how we get duped all the freaking time. And, how we might be inadvertently duping other people all the freaking time. I was first introduced to these concepts by The Personal MBA, which really didn’t do...

Deep Survival [Review]

by William | Aug 12, 2014

Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales came out of left field for me (a referential analogy that I decidedly do not understand). I sometimes choose books off of the Personal MBA reading list, which is where I found this one. And since I typically don’t download...

Stonewall [Review]

by William | Aug 6, 2014

I went to the Gay Pride parade in DC a few months ago. It would be my first time going, because I didn’t much feel like I had any business being there. Of course, I was wrong. There was a world of curiosities waiting there for me. I stood on the sidewalk...