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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan is a fantastic, eye-opening book that will challenge not only what you know but also what you think you know. Taleb is widely...

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Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca

Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca Seneca, like other Stoics, has a doctrine of nature that is remarkably close to that of Emerson or modern American environmentalists. The wise man (sapiens) will...

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Positive Addiction by William Glasser

Positive Addiction by William Glasser Finally and most important, to find happiness we need others, but an addict needs only himself. Dependent only upon himself and knowing he can pursue his...

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Staying Together by William Glasser

Staying Together by William Glasser Continuing with my trend of reading books on reality therapy or control/choice theory by William Glasser, I picked up a used copy of Staying Together. This book is...

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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert Finished reading Stumbling on Happiness (SoH) by Daniel Gilbert last night, which weighs at about 240 pages and is an easy and informative discussion of the...

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The New Dad’s Survival Guide by Scott Mactavish

The New Dad’s Survival Guide by Scott Mactavish Prompted by impending fatherhood, I picked up Scott Mactavish’s The New Dad’s Survival Guide from Amazon. At only around 130 pages, Survival Guide is a...

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Twitter Power by Joel Comm

Twitter Power by Joel Comm Finally adding a very small review about Twitter Power by Joel Comm. It was disappointing. In short, Twitter Power provides an overview of what twitter does as well as...

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Constructive Living by David Reynolds

Constructive Living by David Reynolds I picked up a used copy (the book is out of print) of Constructive Living by David Reynolds after reading a comment from James Hogan on Patri Friedman’s...

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Exuberant Animal by Frank Forencich

Exuberant Animal by Frank Forencich I read Exuberant Animal by Frank Forencich whilst vacationing in Jamaica and am just now (Actual date, not finish date per this review is July 9, 2009!) getting to...

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Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Originally posted this review on Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run on birthdayshoes.com: Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run I challenge anyone to read Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run: A Hidden...

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The System is Down

(Via StrongBad / Homestar Runner)I read a book about five months back by John Gall called Systemantics: The Systems Bible. The book goes through a derived (by the author) set of principles or axioms...

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Control Theory by William Glasser

Updated, April 2020. Over 11 years have passed since I first read this book (Originally published Feb. 18, 2009), yet I still reflect on the ideas Glasser set forth in it, applying those ideas in my...

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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebNassim Taleb’s The Black Swan is a fantastic, eye-opening book that will challenge not only what you know but also what you think you know. Taleb is widely...

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Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca

Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca Seneca, like other Stoics, has a doctrine of nature that is remarkably close to that of Emerson or modern American environmentalists. The wise man (sapiens) will...

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