I recently finished The Overstory by Richard Powers, a book more different than anything I’ve read in quite some time. It stood out in a bookstore turned cafe with boozy coffee drinks and tasty pastries in Steamboat. The book follows the lives of ~6 different people and their lineages dating…

I recently finished On the Road, The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, 2+ years after initially picking it up. I thought it’d be fitting on a long Europe trip in Dec, 2018, but I couldn’t get into it. Given that I’ve been moving around lots again, it felt like the…

*note I finished this book a few months back and getting caught up on book reviews so my thoughts are likely missing components if I were to have just finished it I was inspired to read this book after my time in Medellin, Colombia where I got a brief…

Reading First Principles About When to Use First Principles by Auren Hoffman got me thinking about how most people choose the proxies (sources/experts) that they rely on when they’re not engaging in first principles thinking (aka, most of the time). I agree with Auren that more proxies are better, that…

I recently re-listened to Zero to One by Peter Thiel and am very glad I did. It’s a pretty short book and one I’d recommend everyone, regardless of interests, takes a look at because of the frameworks he gives towards thinking about companies, how we spend our lives, and the…

This was a paradigm-shifting book for me and also the first that I finished reading on my new Amazon Fire, which was a different (positive) reading experience than those in the past. What do we mean by flow and why does it matter? In as science-focused way as possible, author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (calling him MC for short), broke down what it…

I just finished listening to The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang. Lang was one of the four people at the top putting the festival on. I started it initially, thinking it’d be fun. …

I just finished listening to Ender’s Game, a book I read at some point probably in middle school that I partially remembered. I was a big fan. The Sci Fi There are many components I enjoyed from the book, one of which is the science fiction nature. Orson Scott Card creates a futuristic…

I’ve started a new kick of trying to listen to more classic fiction and fantasy books. Last year I made my way through the Harry Potter series again and I did the Lord of the Rings before that. …