I was first introduced to the writing and thinking of Dale Carnegie at 16 years old, when I saw a funny poster of a depression-era kid, ball cap canted to the side, who had a large black eye and was reading precociously a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People. This book is [...]
For the past month, I have been using an app on my DroidX called Overdrive that allows me to access a digital library of titles at my local library. I just finished listening to the MP3 version of Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian, and I loved it. I have been a sailor since my [...]
Of all the 50 books that I read in 2010, one stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.
Set in South Africa in the 1930s and 40s, The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay, is a very compelling semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young man who goes by the spunky nickname “Peekay”.
The book [...]
I can still remember sitting at my desk in the dorm in 1989, studying my latest chemistry textbook and believing that we only had 75 more years of fossil fuels before we would run out (what next?) and that man was causing global warming with all the CO2 we were generating.
This won’t be a rigorously [...]
During my year-long journey through the books in 2010, I was able to read many books that had been bought years earlier never to be read. I tend to be a bit of a book hoarder – I like to own them and always have the best intentions of getting to them, but it often [...]
I made alot of noise last year about my new year’s resolution to read more books in 2010. That is one of the best resolutions I have made in more than a decade, and it has really changed up how much time I devote each day to reading, and how I think about the importance [...]
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Early last year I read Richard Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (it was Book #6 in my 2010 list of 50) at the urging of Matt Humphrey.
This is an older book that has been with us since 1983, and to say the book has been influential in the time since its publication [...]
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Well, now it’s official – Amazon has finally broken a tiny crack in the tough outer shell of their Kindle, a nearly microscopic one… the BIG news about allowing lending your Kindle eBooks from one device to another is official.
The upshot is that I can now choose to make the eBooks that I [...]
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I am in a book reading competition this year with my pal Erik Young (aka EPY), and I just finished reading one of the most enjoyable books thus far – What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg. I thought I would offer a few words about the book – a small review.
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Yesterday I finished book #11 in my 2010 book-reading quest - Creative Capital, by Spencer Ante. This book tells the story of Georges Doriot, considered to be the “Father of Venture Capital”, and the first venture firm, American Research and Development Corp (ARD). The author wass a technology/finance editor at Business Week (recently moved to the WSJ), so [...]