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Review: How to Take Smart Notes

Review: How to Take Smart Notes

I've been trying out a new app lately: Obsidian. In my unending quest to organize my notes and recategorize them over time, I've grown more appreciative of some level of independence from proprietary services or platforms,…

Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters

Review: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters

If there's a category of literature that's invites more skepticism than self-help books, it may be self-help parenting books. The genre combines the pseudo-science of pop psychology and copious amounts of anecdotal evidence, with the added…

Review: The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility

Review: The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility

Leader humility is a tendency to feel and display a deep regard for others' dignity. This definition of "leader humility" shows up in first chapter of The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility: Thriving Organizations — Great Results. It&…

The Expanse Finales

The Expanse Finales

So I've been a bit behind, but I recently finished with both The Expanse novel series—with Leviathan Falls as the ninth and final book—as well as the sixth and final season of The Expanse TV series…

Review: The Aspirational Investor

Review: The Aspirational Investor

The Aspirational Investor is a book by the Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch that introduces a slightly different way to think about investments. It’s not looking to overturn how to think about investing; the author readily admits that…

Review: Arriving Today

Review: Arriving Today

In the Prologue chapter of Arriving Today , the author makes an unusual concession: they wrote a long book, and sometimes it can get into technical nitty-gritty that strays a bit far afield from the logistical arc premised by the subtitle,…