Stop Overthinking
This book gives you twenty-three techniques for breaking the rumination loop, arranged so you can find what you need at midnight without reading cover to cover. If you haven't read in this area, it's a solid starting point. If you…
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Book ReviewsTalking to Strangers
We're terrible at reading strangers, and the errors follow predictable patterns. Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" examines why, starting with three ideas that actually change how you conduct interviews and assess people.
Book ReviewsGuns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel rewrote how we think about why some societies developed steel and ships while others didn't, and his answer was simple: geography and animals, not the people themselves. The book changed a generation's thinking on…
Book ReviewsStrength for Today for Men
This devotional works not because the writing is remarkable, but because the format is nearly impossible to fail at. A few minutes a day, a prompt to write to, and a structure that doesn't punish you for missing a week.
Book ReviewsTriggers
We're all excellent planners and terrible doers, and it's almost never because we lack information. Marshall Goldsmith's *Triggers* pinpoints what actually stops us: the environment we're in when we try to execute, and the gap between the rested person who…
Book ReviewsGhost Wars
Steve Coll's Ghost Wars traces twenty-two years of CIA operations in Afghanistan that led directly to 9/11, and his choice to end the book on September 10th makes the argument impossible to ignore. Everything that happened the next morning had…
Book ReviewsHistory’s Worst Decisions
Fifty historical disasters arranged by motive instead of chronology: a genuinely clever organizing idea buried in a book full of factual errors and missed opportunities. Read it for the leads, not the history.
Book ReviewsMaking Ideas Happen
Most people think ideas are the hard part. Belsky spent six years watching creative teams and found the opposite: everyone has ideas, almost nobody finishes them, and the gap has nothing to do with talent. He built a system to…
Book ReviewsThe Other Guy Blinked
Roger Enrico wrote this book in a fury, getting it to print before anyone else could tell the story of how Pepsi put Coca-Cola on its heels and then watched the company blink. The speed matters because a book written…
Book ReviewsThe Fear Thesaurus
A reference for writers on how fear shows up in a character: the physical signals, the behavior, the internal experience, and the ways people hide it. Useful when a scene needs a reaction that is not the obvious one.
AmericaAmerican Phoenix
American Airlines 77 hit the Pentagon on 9/11 with barely a fraction of the attention that fell on New York. This is the book that fills that gap, tracing the building from its groundbreaking in 1941 through the civilians and…
Book ReviewsOrdinary Heroes
Joe Pfeifer was in the North Tower lobby when the first plane hit, running the initial response with no working radios and no way to know his younger brother Kevin was dying in the stairwell above him. This book follows…