Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits [Review]

by William | Apr 17, 2017

Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits is a novel by David Wong, AKA, Jason Pargin. I think that might be his whole name, actually. With the AKA and everything. It’s how I always hear him introduced. So, for the duration of this book review, I’m going to...

The Coaching Habit [Review]

by William | Mar 21, 2017

The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier is either really good or aggressively mediocre, depending what else you’ve already read. The book is aimed at helping managers and small business owners stop being the deus ex machina. The god in the machine. The one...

Go For No [Review]

by William | Mar 14, 2017

Go For No might just be my least favorite book on the topic of sales that I have ever read. Not because the advice is bad, but because it reads a little like cult propaganda. How it got more than a thousand 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon I’ll never know. Lets...

On Photography [Review]

by William | Feb 22, 2017

Susan Sontag was a writer, philosopher and activist. She was born in 1933, did some stuff, and died in 2004. During that “doing some stuff” phase, she was politically outspoken with a brand that has since become the archetypical caricature of leftist nut jobs. In the...

When the Music Changes [Review]

by William | Feb 11, 2017

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 | Jan 14, 2017

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...