I really didn’t know what I was getting into, honestly.
Back in early October of last year, I pointed to a few videos around the idea of “this is water” and after decided that I should read some of his works.  It seemed that “Infinite Jest” was his most remarked and well reflected upon book, so [...]

After a month and a half of reading, I finished Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.  It is a book about a future where everything is automated.  It doesn’t seem a dystopia, but it’s no utopia either.
The world has been engineered to optimize all different tasks humans take on.  In time, this automation has rendered many [...]

Twas a long time ago that I read a review of a book called A Confederacy of Dunces, it was about how Will Farrel was considering a movie remake of the book.  At the time, I knew nothing of the book and so read a quick review.  It was praised as one of the most [...]

The movie was one of the best I’ve seen.  It was simple and ultimately heart wrenching.  For some odd reason, I’d seen the black and white cover and stayed away.  Black and whites have mostly not been that interesting to me, other than Casablanca, but much to my surprise, the movie was actually in color. [...]

I don’t think people listen all that well.  I’m guilty myself of interjecting self purposed statements into conversation when I should be trying to hear what the other person is saying.  We just have the tendency to think in terms relative to ourselves.  The funny thing is that we often wonder why people aren’t listening [...]

A very good thing happened to me recently, I was delegated to work on the Sustainability Team at work.  My company is a very large manufacturer of chemicals and cleaning supplies and cares very much about the impact it has on this planet.  Their commitment to developing sustainable business practices is one of the best [...]

This is a house keeping post.  I’ve been reading at a voracious clip as of late and wanted to review some of the books before shelving and forgetting them.  I read a book on how to “retire secure” by delaying for as long as possible spending your retirement funds in tax averting accounts.  The basic [...]

It has been a long time since I’ve written.  Partly due to inertia, but mostly due to activity.  Over the last few months I’ve read four economics books and all of them seemed to be derived in conservatism.  It was an interesting set of books and offered a ton of understanding on capitalism, conservatism, socialism [...]

Just finished Competitive Intelligence Advantage.  I’ve been reading a lot of business books lately.  This one has some strengths and weaknesses.  Unfortunately, the weaknesses are at the front of the book.
The first half of the book is spent describing the difference between data, information and intelligence.  Now these are important aspects of the book, but [...]

I was given this book twice.  Once by my mother and another time as I graduated business school.  Come to think of it, I’ve been meaning to write a post that looks at the return on investment of business school, beyond just the monetary piece of it.  I’d like to do that at some point. [...]