• Two Books – A Quick Take

    Two Books, Two Approaches: A Quick Take on Range and 59 Seconds I read two books this morning—Range by David Epstein and 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman. Both challenge popular wisdom, but they do it in very different ways—and with very different levels of success.…

  • Show Your Work

    A Book about helping people find your work by Austin Kleon May 8, 2025 When I’m struggling with posting my work, I always remind myself that no one is reading it anyway – so I can write anything I want. Spend any amount of time…

  • More From Austin Kleon

    “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Andre Gide I just purchased his book Show Your Work, dreaded words from math class in my day. But that’s not what this book…

  • Could these be any different?

    May 2nd, 2025 Somehow, and I wish I could remember how – in the midst of reading Mortimer Adler’s How To Read a Book, I landed on Austin Kleon’s How to Read Like an Artist. They couldn’t be more different and I don’t agree with…

  • Ryan Holiday’s Stoic Reading Challenge

    April 21, 2025 Well, a couple of things. First, I don’t feel right sharing the full contents of Ryan Holiday’s Reading Challenge, it’s a paid course so that doesn’t feel ethical. I will say I’m disappointed in the course. I signed up hoping it would…

  • Jan 17, 2025

    Just getting back here after the holidays. Grammarly doesn’t like it when I leave out words – but isn’t it apparent that I’m just getting back? Seeing as how I’m the only one writing on this blog? Anyway, I’m checking out ShortForm – it’s a…

  • It’s 2:49 am …

    It’s not .. it’s about 4:30, but that was the first time I woke up this morning and asked Google for the time. Every morning right about 3 am I wake up. Occasionally I can fall back asleep but most of the time I sleep…

  • 13 Weeks

    If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves. Benjamin Franklin Today is the beginning of the 13th week of 2024. In Jan 2019 I read a book called The 12-Week Year. I came away from that read with several…

  • 13 Minutes

    That’s the commitment I’ve made to this project. 13 minutes every day. Why 13? Why not? I picked that number a few years ago when I was having trouble working on something I needed to get to – I can’t remember now what it was.…

  • Arrogance & Imposter Syndrome

    Imposter syndrome refers to a psychological pattern where an individual doubts their skills, accomplishments, and talents, and has a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud” or “impostor.” On the other hand one might have good reason to doubt their skill, and their talents…