Bryn and I listened to The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class during our drive home from Seattle. It only took about 2 hours to hear the audiobook version so you could probably knock out the paper version in under an hour. It would be worth your time. Author Kevin Cameron Smith [...]
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I’ll be honest. I didn’t get more than a few chapters into Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Sorry Chris. It’s not that it wasn’t interesting or insightful. It was both. But it was also 400 pages of dense academic prose and it wasn’t really working out for me as bedtime reading before [...]
On the plane back from China, I killed a couple hours with Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS Shoes. It caught my attention with the entrepreneurial angle and clinched the deal with the shoe connection. TOMS, Shoes for a Better Tomorrow, is a remarkable brand. Everyone knows TOMS and everyone [...]
I grabbed Practical Genius: The Real Smarts You Need to Get Your Talents and Passions Working For You from the library the other day. Saw it on Amazon and it sounded interesting. It wasn’t. Couldn’t get into it. Made it 15 or 20 pages and skimmed another 30 or so. I guess it didn’t really [...]
If you’re looking for a travel book from a different perspective, check out Rolf Potts’ Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. For dreamers with itchy feet, it may be the perfect motivation to set out on a big adventure. Potts describes how his minimalist “vagabonding” lifestyle has led to a [...]
The Go-Giver is a short story (120 pages) on the secrets to success in business and in life. It’s written in the familiar form of a parable like the One-Minute Manager and the E-Myth. If you like business books, it’s definitely a worthwhile read. The Go-Giver does an excellent job of explaining that which we [...]
