Posted January 20, 2023

My rating: 9/10

Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing is the first in a three part Spiritual Enlightenment series by Jed McKenna. The premise of the book is to help you understand what it's like to live life as an enlightened person and offer some advice for getting there if you so desire.

Posted January 19, 2023

My rating: 7/10

Permanent record tells the story of Snowden starting from his childhood and up to his exile to Russia. Throughout the course of his life you see how and why he evolves from a patriot excited to serve America, to one disillusioned by the way the U.S. treats its people.

Posted December 1, 2022

My rating: 8/10

Gaming the Future is a book about exploring what our future might look like, and the ways we can plan ahead to navigate traps. What will it take to make it out of the 21 century?

Posted December 1, 2022

My rating: 8/10

The elephant in the room refers to an important issue that people are reluctant to acknowledge or address; a social taboo. The elephant in the brain refers to an important but unacknowledged feature of how our minds work; an introspective taboo. What introspective taboos can we uncover?

Posted October 4, 2022

My rating: 7/10

'The transition from one stage of economic life to another has always involved a revolution. We think that the Information Revolution is likely to be the most far reaching of all. It will reorganize life more thoroughly than either the Agricultural Revolution or the Industrial Revolution. And its impact will be felt in a fraction of the time. Fasten your seat belts.'

Posted September 27, 2022

My rating: 9/10

An interesting book which explores the efficiency and adequacy of systems, and presents a case against modest empistemology in favor of probability theory and decision-theory.

Posted March 4, 2021

My rating: 7.5/10

I've never seen myself as a good story teller, but this book gave me a huge boost in that direction. Totally recommend to anyone who wants to improve their abilities to captivate an audience.

Posted December 1, 2020

My rating: 8/10

The Way to WillPower was published in 1922, but still packs a ton of super valuable information relating to "will-power". I found many of its ideas useful in my everyday life. It's a relatively quick read, I definitely recommend!