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Category: Book Reviews
Barking Up The Wrong Tree
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The goal of Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker gives away the goal of the book. Barker is going to show us why what we know about success is mostly wrong. There is a lot in this book, so I wont’ be able to cover it all. I’ll highlight some of the ideas that…
3 Thoughts from Deep Work by Cal Newport
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This is my third reading of Deep Work by Cal Newport. During my first reading of Deep Work I remember being excited because someone was finally saying all the things I’d been thinking and circling around in my productivity life for a few years. While I don’t get that same feeling when I read it…
The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
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From the subtitle, Andrew Yang positions The War on Normal people as his answer to deal with the problems America is facing with disappearing jobs and thus income issues in their homes. ## What is the Problem? In Yang’s mind the issue is that we have a lack of financial mobility and stability. This insecurity…
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
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I don’t often talk about the fiction books that I read, but this was too good to pass up. There are some minor spoilers ahead, so be warned. In Pet a young teenage girl named Jam manages to conjure an “angel” out of a painting her mother made. The angel is here to hunt a…
Reclaimed by Andy Steiger
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After I read The God Delusion, I had more than one atheist reach out to me asking if I had books on faith that would be compelling. They felt that I had treated the material in the book fairly and wanted to do the same thing. Then my wife told me an old friend had…
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
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There is a famous line that says information wants to be free, but Cory Doctrow would disagree with that statement. In fact the title of his book, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, clearly contradicts this statement. The purpose of Doctrow’s book is to show users how to make money in the current internet system[^1].…
Man’s Search for Meaning
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Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, is a classic book that shows up on many lists of books that one must read in their life. There is good reason in this. The first section of the book is all about Frankl’s experience in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and it’s truly horrific. If…
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan
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After reading The Case Against Education I saw another intriguing title from Bryan Caplan about having more kids for selfish reasons. Today we’ll look at that book, called Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The purpose is directly in the title for the curious. Caplan is going to argue that if you wanted no kids,…
The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
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Did you love going to school? I know I didn’t. My biggest problem was that I couldn’t see the point of most of the work I did and thus didn’t feel like wasting my effort on it. I easily grasped math that I could turn around and use in my construction job, but then struggled…
The Underground Girls of Kabul
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While we may all want to think that we’re so much better than the Taliban, in many respects behaviour in North America is simply better hidden than it was under the Taliban regime. No where is this more evident than in the way we treat women. I grabbed The Underground Girls of Kabul a number…
