At last night’s work D&D game, I took a turn as a player (while Dasia ran her first adventure!). The party is working through the maze that makes up the outer section of a green dragon’s lair. One of the obstacles was a series of puzzle rooms, the main feature […]
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried My rating: 5 of 5 stars An excellent book for what it is: a look into different ways of doing things. Not just from a theoretical perspective, but from a company that is thriving. As long as you read […]
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop My rating: 4 of 5 stars Alternate title: “Stoic Philosophy for People Who Don’t Like Reading Old Texts.“ There’s not a ton of new material (naturally, given that stoicism has been around for over two […]
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek My rating: 5 of 5 stars I consider this book to be Sinek’s redemption for ‘Start with Why.’ I’m a huge fan of his presentations/videos, but ‘Start With Why’ felt lacking; it was a great presentation-length idea that had been stretched out into a […]
If you poke around this blog a bit, it’s clear that I’ve been trying to do more creative stuff in my spare moments. However, I haven’t done any sketchnoting since last year’s Tri-State SHRM conference and – wouldn’t you know it – yesterday was Rhode Island SHRM’s 20th annual conference! […]
Tonight we finished up a series of quests that involved Cothynta, the self-styled “Lady of Fire.” Sharry was compelled (by way of an agreement with a powerful efreeti) to close a rogue series of portals leading to the Plane of Fire. Sharry was still fuming as he wound up the […]
The Voice of Knowledge by Miguel Ruiz My rating: 5 of 5 stars The thing about age-old wisdom is that it’s been around forever. It’s been around forever because it’s generally on-point, but this creates a marketing problem: how do you keep something like that from becoming a kind of […]
Kevin – a first-time player – has been running a monk named Hanya for the past few months. Now that he’s hit 6th level or so, he’s beginning to be effective in combat (monks are strange that way…
Men, Women & Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough by Brené Brown My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m surprised how long it took me to read something by Brown, given how much her TED talk affected me several years ago. This audiobook didn’t disappoint. […]
Friday’s game was pretty significant for Vlad – the character I’ve been playing in my work D&D campaign since (wow) July of 2017. We were finishing up a part of ‘the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish’ adventure, and simply had to defeat the Big Bad Evil Guy to get access to […]
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