Books

“We’ve been destroying jobs in the heartland, and we’re not focusing on putting up money to fund entrepreneurs in those places.” Top Dog, Dan Lyons, 2018, p. 168. “…tech founders always talked about “changing the world” and “putting a dent in the universe” and “making the world a better place.” We were kind of cynical…

Warning: this is a long post. Okay, this next post will be on the second book that I’m reading: Lab Rats by Dan Lyons. I actually started reading this book one or two months ago but have been progressing in a fit and start fashion because the message of the book is so distressing that…

In today’s post, I’m going to put down my notes on Top Dog by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. This post took me way longer than I had expected as I went through my highlights to refresh my memory and figured out what exactly I want to note in this post. That whole process took…

Right now, I’m reading 3 books which I’m reading sporadically because there are 3 of them as well as because I’m trying to do other stuff. I think I will introduce them in this post with my fuller thought in later posts so that this post won’t end up being very long. I’d rather keep…

I’m not ignoring what is going on but I just need to think about other things. I think we’re heading into the headwinds of the storm – it looks like New York is going to break in the next week. So, I got to think of other stuff to reduce my anxiety and fear. I’ve…

This was the post I was going to do after the first post on the Coronavirus but I got hacked. A few weeks ago, I thought I would do some posts on the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson because they have some different ideas about work. They are kind of radical…