Once, a long time ago, I took MBA classes at a business college. My classmates hated this one professor because he didn’t use the textbook to teach. He was an old fella, I think 72 years old at the time, and he would just tell stories for the entire hour of each class. His stories […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume III
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume II
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Lessons on Facing Death, Unafraid
Paul Kalanithi spent much of his life examining the nature of life itself, and the inevitable death that results. He found his calling as a neurosurgeon until a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer forced him to reexamine his own mortality. He wrote his memoirs, When Breath Becomes Air, during the final year of his […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume I
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Change Your Life with the Magic of Tidying Up
In The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up, decluttering expert Marie Kondo teaches how you can clear the clutter out of your life so you can focus only on the things that “spark joy.” Here are my favorite twelve takeaways: There are really only two steps involved in tidying: discarding and deciding where to keep things. […]
Blog Ideas: Introduction
Many blogs fail because the blogger stopped coming up with new ideas. This book will give you ideas and solve your writer’s block once and for all.
Introduction to The Life Actionbook
This book is a workbook (of sorts) for finding the areas for improvement in your life and fixing them. Each chapter discusses one area of life.
How Long Does It Take to Close on a House?
A homebuyer can expect to spend a month or two shopping for a house. But the transaction doesn’t end when the seller accepts an offer from a buyer.
Baseball Cards as Investments
I’ve always assumed that the stock market is a much better investment than baseball cards. In this article, I will explore whether that assumption is correct or not.