Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek My rating: 3 of 5 stars The core idea of the book is really solid – potentially game-changing, really – but it’s not a book-sized idea. After the first couple of chapters, ‘Start with Why’ became […]
This Is Not Fame: A “From What I Re-Memoir” by Doug Stanhope My rating: 4 of 5 stars While ‘Digging Up Mother’ was a bittersweet narrative (two interwoven bittersweet narratives, really) stitched together by entertaining anecdotes, ‘This Is Not Fame’ replaces narrative with throughlines of life lessons learned from a […]
UPDATE: Oh snap – I totally missed these from earlier in the year when I presented at RecruitCon East: What Looks Like a Magnet May Not Be a Magnet Making Your Company into a Talent Magnet As best as I can tell, I set up a Google alert for “kurt […]
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach My rating: 4 of 5 stars Entertaining. I can see why Roach is so popular! The format of the book did get a bit formulaic after a while; once the novelty had worn off, given the […]
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Maybe my expectations were to high due to the book’s reputation, but it was a middling reading experience. The premise and plot concept were very interesting, but the execution was ham-fisted: vast swaths of info-dumps, awkward pacing, and a […]
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 5 of 5 stars Despite occasionally trying a bit too hard, this book is great! I was on the edge of my seat for a good 70% of the time, and it was the most fun I’ve had reading a book in […]
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I appreciate Neil Gaiman, but I’ve never been a fanboy or anything. So I expected to enjoy ‘the Graveyard Book.’ I just wasn’t prepared for how *much* I’d enjoy it! The book is simultaneously familiar and novel (no […]
Was it spring or winter? Was I six or was I eleven? I honestly can’t remember. Pop and I were out picking up supplies at the local mall, and I’d lobbied my way into three minutes at the toy store. I made a bee line to the Lego section (Legos […]
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger My rating: 5 of 5 stars Insightful, humbling, and terrifying. Worth every moment spent reading. View all my reviews
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris J. Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars There’s a bunch of really solid material in here. Though, as a word of warning, this book is best used as a reference manual rather than something to be read straight […]
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