• Never Split the Difference

    Never Split the Difference

    A treatise on negotiating – by Chris Voss March 3, 2026 Reflections and Random Thoughts Insights Key Take-Aways Listen. The truth is I talk too much. I always have. I hear myself talking over prospects – it doesn’t get any worse than that. Elicit the…

  • Flow

    Flow

    A book about how to experience happiness in spite of circumstances by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Date Purchased: Mar 7, 2024 Date Started: Aug 13, 2025 Date Finished: Nov 15, 2025 Reflections and Random Thoughts When I finished reading this book I created a calculator to tell…

  • One Small Step Can Change Your Life

    One Small Step Can Change Your Life

    A Book about The Kaizen Way by Robert Mauer, Ph.D. May 22, 2025 Housekeeping Copyright 2004 My first read was 2010, I read it again in 2022. And I’m going to read it again now – but I’m also going to buy the physical book.…

  • A Falcon Flies

    A novel by Wilber Smith 📅 Started: March 2025 📅 Finished: June 2025 📚 Format: physical book Why I Started Reading It My Opinion What Everyone Else Thinks Post Progress Vocabulary Quiz

  • Strangers In Time

    Strangers In Time

    By David Baldacci May 2, 2025 📅 Started: April 27, 2025 📅 Finished*:* [date] 📚 Format: (hardcover / Kindle / library loan / audiobook, etc.) Why I Started Reading It I had just finished Beach Music and found At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks in…

  • Da Vinci and the 40 Answers

    Da Vinci and the 40 Answers

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  • How to Read a Book

    How to Read a Book

    How to Read a Book – Mortimer Adler’s classic guide to intelligent reading April 20, 2025 Housekeeping I bought How to Read a Book back in 2018, and this is my third attempt to get through it. The first two tries didn’t get far—honestly, it…

  • Systemology

    Systemology

    April 14, 2025 A Book About Systemizing Your Business by David Jenyns and Michael E Gerber Quotes from the Book “that the primary purpose of SYSTEMology is to create space for the business owner – to systemise the business to the point where you can…

  • Range

    Range

    A book about the benefits of generalizing over specialization by David Epstein April 3, 2025 Reflections and Random Thoughts June 1, 2025 Two Books, Two Approaches: A Quick Take on Range and 59 Seconds I read two books this morning—Range by David Epstein and 59…

  • Beach Music

    Beach Music

    A Novel by Pat Conroy – from the back cover of the book PAT CONROY, America’s preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truth — the story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His…

  • The Laws of Human Nature

    The Laws of Human Nature

    By Robert Green This link is the book summarized in 8 minutes by Robert Greene. Reflections and Random Thoughts Housekeeping Mar 25, 2025 It looks like I purchased and started reading this book in July of 2021. It’s a 586-page book, and I read up…

  • Too Late

    Too Late

    By Colleen Hoover Read over about two weeks in late February or early March 2025. What Everyone Else Thinks With 108,000+ ratings on Amazon, 58% five stars, and over 400,00 on Good Reads with an overall rating of 4.3 – this is a solidly entertaining…