So Good They Can’t Ignore You
It’s no secret to those of you who’ve read this blog and follow me on Twitter that I’m a huge fan of Cal Newport. His book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” changed the way...
View ArticleLove Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
“Truth is simple. Truth is succinct,” writes Kamal Ravikant. To be honest, I don’t remember when I put Kamal’s book, “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It” on my reading list. Perhaps it was...
View ArticleNobody Wants to Read Your Shit
No one is waiting to read what you’ve written. Nobody wants to read anything. Aside from Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird, Steven Pressfield’s Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t is the “writing” book that gets...
View ArticleThe Best Books I Read in 2017
I made it by the skin of my teeth, but I achieved my goal of finishing 12 books in 2017. Not bad considering I have a day gig and spend most of my free time chasing a 1-year old around. Keep reading...
View ArticleEgo is the Enemy: Aspire
What do LL Cool J, Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Olympians and NFL GM’s have in common? They all like Ryan Holiday’s books. His book, “The Obstacle is the Way,” is one of my all time favorites so, of...
View ArticleEgo is the Enemy: Success
“Ego is the Enemy” explores the fact that many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our...
View ArticleEgo is the Enemy: Failure
“Ego is the Enemy” explores the fact that many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our...
View Article#ManChat’s Favorite Books
This summer I hosted four Twitter Chats. These chats, poorly dubbed #ManChat (men don’t chat), often featured between 20-35 men (and a handful of women) discussing a number of topics including:...
View ArticleThe Best Books I Read in 2017
I made it by the skin of my teeth, but I achieved my goal of finishing 12 books in 2017. Not bad considering I have a day gig and spend most of my free time chasing a 1-year old around. Keep reading...
View ArticleSo Good They Can’t Ignore You
It’s no secret to those of you who’ve read this blog and follow me on Twitter that I’m a huge fan of Cal Newport. His book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” changed the way...
View ArticleLove Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
“Truth is simple. Truth is succinct,” writes Kamal Ravikant. To be honest, I don’t remember when I put Kamal’s book, “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It” on my reading list. Perhaps it was...
View ArticleNobody Wants to Read Your Shit
No one is waiting to read what you’ve written. Nobody wants to read anything. Aside from Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird, Steven Pressfield’s Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t is the “writing” book that gets...
View Article75+ Insights from “It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work”
I’ve long been a fan of Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The culture they’ve created at Basecamp is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. In the past, I’ve quoted Jason talking about how alone time...
View ArticleThe Lessons of History
“The Lessons of History” is high atop Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s best “per-page” books list. Among other things, Patrick is a prolific reader and his recommendations rarely (if ever) steer me wrong and so...
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8 of the Best Books I Read in 2019
With two kids under 3.5, it’s not always easy to carve out time to read but, as the saying goes, you find the time to do things that are important to you. In 2019, I was able to read 18 books. Of those...
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The Coaching Habit: 7 Questions to Ask Employees
I started to grow my team at work last year. As a result, I wanted to become a better leader. I scoured the Internet looking for book recommendations and Michael Bungay Stanier’s “The Coaching Habit”...
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The War of Art – Highlights and Excerpts
Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art is universally lauded as the go to book to help people defeat what he calls “The Resistance” and how to overcome it to produce and share high quality creative work....
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Shoe Dog
When Shoe Dog came out in 2016, countless people told me it was not only one of the best memoirs they’d ever read, but one of the best books they’d read. Finally, about halfway through 2017, I decided...
View Article10 of the Best Books I Read in 2020
This article highlights the 10 best books I read in 2020. For the 3rd year in a row, I read 18 books. (That feels about right for me with two young kids.) A disgruntled woman on Twitter said, “That’s...
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8 Secrets to Getting Obscenely Rich
Magazine/publishing pioneer (Maxim, The Week, etc.) Felix Dennis was worth an estimated $750 million when he died in 2014. Dennis wrote a book, “How to Get Rich” that is refreshingly honest, pulls ZERO...
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