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seth godin

CHOOSING COLOR: People desperately want to believe stories. Even if that story is just a few drops of ink on a plastic sheet.

notes from 4 hour body

Ginger & Sauerkraut for muscle experimentalists keep theoreticians honest- Michio Kaku Separation of expertise means both

Book Review: Best of Quora 2010-2012

I received this book in the mail as a part of my “Top Writer 2012” package (along with a sweet t-shirt). I only ju

Summary of Thinking, Fast and Slow

PART 1: TWO SYSTEMS 1: The Characters of the story (System 1 & 2) 2: Attention and Effort 3: The Lazy Controller 4: The As

On Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers

Outliers was the first Malcolm Gladwell book that I read and enjoyed from cover to cover. I believe the central idea of the bo

Revolutionize Education, make learning fun

I’ve been watching more TED Talks recently- and I’ve stumbled upon a few gems. I’ve decided I’m going

Thoughts on reading Mastery, by Robert Greene

I deeply enjoyed Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power. It’s not like he’s saying anything new, but something

Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles

I bought The Martian Chronicles at a library book sale. I’ve been to 3 sales so far. I believe I bought it in either th

Freakonomics

Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner I first read Freakonomics when I was still in secondary school, and I t

My Mass Effect Experience

I want to talk about Mass Effect. I first started when I played Mass Effect 2 on my friend’s Playstation 2. As with Drag

Wuthering Heights and the folly of vengeance

I choose to start with Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, partially because it was a text that I choose to do when retaki

Book Recommendation: Soul Made Flesh

Today’s Recommendation: Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain–and How it Changed the World It’s a fasc

goodreads

Saw a few reminders of things that I enjoyed reading. http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/05/17/some-more-thoughts-on-grad-school/

Charlie Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia

I used to read a lot as a kid, though it never occurred to me that I was. If I ever seem more intelligent than anybody else, i

The Death And Life Of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs

I borrowed this one from a friend who’s interested in architecture. I didn’t completely appreciate it as I was fli

The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb

This is one of those life-changers. It doesn’t work as a casual read, because it’s most likely going to challenge

Charlie Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia

I used to read a lot as a kid, though it never occurred to me that it was anything unusual. If I ever seem more intelligent th

The Book Project

Books have always been a huge part of my life. I haven’t always been reading, though- I read a lot as a child, and then

The Depth Of Complexity

Most things that are interesting are simultaneously complex. Cities are complex. Living organisms are complex. Complexity cove

Evolution of Co-operation, by Robert Axelrod

The Evolution of Cooperation Summary of: The Evolution of Cooperation “The objective of this enterprise is to develop a

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers is essentially a description of the ecology behind success. Gladwell points out, rightly, th

Self-Directed Learning (aka intensive reading)

I’ve been procrastinating about this for far, far too long. Now that I’ve hit the midway point of the 90 Week Proj

The 48 Laws Of Power

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers Law 1 Never Outshine the Master Always make those above you feel comfo

Books: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

Synopsis The book contains ten chapters. The first few build a case that there is almost certainly no God, while the rest disc