• Books,  Uncategorized

    Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: a famous researcher combats your 2020 existential dread by placing this terrible year into perspective

    I’m definitely stating the obvious here, but 2020 has really sucked. For starters, we continue to live through a pandemic that has taken the lives of so many worldwide, and dramatically altered life for all of us lucky to still be alive. Wildfires ravaged the state of California this summer. In the best case scenario, one couldn’t step outside for coffee or a short walk around the block for weeks on end. In the worst case scenario, your house and all your property was burned to the ground. We woke up to ORANGE SKY as our state burned (over 4,359,517 acres): In case a pandemic and wildfires weren’t quite enough,…

  • Books,  Self-Development

    Tim Ferris’ new book, Tribe of Mentors provides therapy and motivation to nudge you towards success

    Harsh truth time: if you live in Silicon Valley and haven’t heard of Tim Ferris, you’re living under a rock. He operates a famous podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show) and writes prolifically. His self-authored bookshelf includes The Four Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans. He represents the classic Silicon Valley hero.   His newly released book, Tribe of Mentors, bursts at the seams with wisdom (I mean this semi-literally…it is over 500 pages long). Rather than trying to write a book of his own advice, Tim cleverly crowdsources advice from a smattering of the world’s most successful people. The book represents a compilation of many successful people’s responses to the same…

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    Hate books? These steps can help you grow from a non-reader to a bookworm soon

    In elementary school, I spent recesses reading in a corner while the other children played on the monkey bars. This was in equal parts attributable to the fact that I was an intolerable swot who thought books were more interesting than humans, and to the fact that other children knew how insufferable I was and wisely kept their distance. Whatever the childhood origins of my love of reading, the love remains as strong as ever, and reading regularly constitutes one of my pitifully few ‘good habits.’ I often converse with friends who ask how they can learn to love reading, or express an interest in reading more. Here are a…