The Stranger [Review]

by William | Sep 14, 2014

It was a warm. The air was dense with invisible droplets of water. My eyes and knees were heavy. I wanted to go home and rest my head on a soft pillow, But the descending cadence of conversation on that back patio full of exhausted party-goers insisted I stay put. I...

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...