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The Future We Choose
A definite recommend from me. I think everyone, everywhere, of every age should read this book.
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OpenFit 2+ Open-Ear Headphones
I spent years treating headphones as isolation chambers. The point was to disappear — into a podcast, a playlist, the work. Block the world out, get something done. The Shokz OpenFit 2+ broke that habit. These aren’t noise-canceling. They don’t seal against your ear canal. They sit just outside it, directing sound inward while leaving…
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Meditations for Mortals
Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is structured around four weeks of daily meditations, fourteen chapters in all. I did the audio version, one chapter a day, and I’d recommend that approach. There’s something about letting it unspool slowly — one idea, digested, before the next arrives — that mirrors what Burkeman is actually arguing…
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Range
David Epstein’s Range is one of those books that reads like someone finally put words to something you’d always suspected about yourself but couldn’t quite defend. The argument is this: generalists — people who wander across disciplines before settling, or never settle at all — outperform specialists over the long run. Both as individuals and…
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Churchill
I just finished Paul Johnson’s Churchill; it is a concise, well-crafted biography that manages to cover remarkable ground in relatively few pages. Johnson writes with clear admiration for Winston Churchill, but he doesn’t let that affection cloud his judgment. The book honestly addresses Churchill’s faults and failures alongside his triumphs, giving readers a balanced portrait…
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4 Hour Work-week
I just finished The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, and I need to clear up a major misconception right off the bat: this isn’t a book about magically reducing your corporate job to four hours a week while collecting a full salary—it’s about escaping traditional employment altogether to join what Ferriss calls the “New Rich”…
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
I recently finished Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, and it’s an extraordinary biography that captures the full complexity of Disney himself—his visionary genius, his very human flaws, and his relentless, almost obsessive drive to create experiences that transcended the ordinary. Gabler doesn’t shy away from Disney’s darker qualities—his controlling…
