I recently read How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen on recommendation and now I'll propagate the cycle by also proselytizing the book. It's an accessible, self-reflection provoking read with great insights for cookie-cutter career-conscious yuppies. I was personally galvanized by the discussion around "Investing for Future Happiness" and "The Risk of Sequencing … Continue reading Day 26: Re-learning Chinese as a Heritage Speaker
The antithesis of How to Win Friends and Influence People The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith is not for the faint of heart. Mesquita and Smith present a cynical and pessimistic framework that explains the terrible behavior of leaders in power. They argue that a leader's primary purpose is to … Continue reading Day 22: Bad Behavior, Good Politics
World Order: "Vintage Kissinger" Hillary Clinton refers to Henry Kissinger's World Order as "vintage Kissinger." While she undoubtedly intends the phrase as fulsome praise, it makes me far less excited about reading Kissinger's earlier works. Kissinger's writing is both dense and assumes a high level of background knowledge on global political history. If you have … Continue reading Day 16: World Order and Diplomacy
The cheeky cover to an excellent little manual. Today I pulled out from storage Dreyer's English - An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer. As an aside, pro strat for the day: when storing books in giant moving boxes, stack them so their spines are readable. It will make retrieval so … Continue reading Day 9: Editing for Clarity and Style
The captivating covers of The Powder Mage Trilogy In the past 10 years, I've read a lot of fantasy fiction. Find any "best epic/high/fantasy fiction" list online; I assure you I've both seen the list and read 90% of the books on that list. This has always been my secret guilty pleasure. In my mind, … Continue reading Day 4: The Powder Mage trilogy, book review
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