12 important topics
The idea for this post came from Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult. My goal here was not to compile a list of the ideas… Read More »12 important topics
The idea for this post came from Ben Sasse’s The Vanishing American Adult. My goal here was not to compile a list of the ideas… Read More »12 important topics
White guilt is a short but interesting read. Steele recounts his own story of growing up in a classical civil rights world where he fought… Read More »White Guilt – Shelbey Steele – Recommend with salt
This book is a bit difficult for me to review. Before reading it I listened to 100+ hours of JBP lectures, debates, and interviews. There’s… Read More »Twelve Rules for Life – Jordan B. Peterson – Recommend With Salt
The first thing to note, I did the unimaginable and listened to the abridged version. Am I not hardcore enough for the full three volumes?… Read More »The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Highly Recommend
The book in a nutshell is captured by the subheading “why good people are divided by politics and religion”. The book can be roughly… Read More »The righteous mind — Jonathan Haidt — Recommend with salt
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave was an interesting read, my relationship with it is complex. My introduction to Douglass comes… Read More »Fredrick Douglass an American Slave — Fredrick Douglass — Recommend with salt
This book falls squarely next to Carol Dweck’s Mindset, which is funny since Duckworth specifically references Dweck towards the end of the book. In… Read More »Grit — Angela Duckworth — Recommend with Salt
Prior to a trip to Oahu, I was looking for a book that would make a visit to pearl harbor more meaningful. I picked… Read More »Brothers Down — Walter Borneman — Recommend With Salt
Conversely. “I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to… Read More »Vision, Metric, Method — Accomplishing goals in 2021
This is one of Steinbeck’s classics, I think partially because its about a 2-hour read, compared to east of Eden or grapes of wrath… Read More »Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck — Recommend with salt