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Great Book
Emotional vampires. We all have them in our lives. We all know their job is to be unhappy and to bring unhappiness to your world.
Slay them!
Read this article. Read this book.
Truer words were never spoken.
Now This is a Great List To Be On
Thank you. I’m very humbled and flattered. Click here to see what I mean.
Alone Together
This is a fantastic article.
This is what I was feeling and what generated my blog post around New Year’s Day on “New Ways of Working Together.”
Sherry Turkle is a great thinker in this space. I once brought her into AOL back in 1994 to speak to our folks about community, communications, privacy and new media. I remember her speech was riveting!
This book will be considered seminal work in this space, I am sure. “Little drops of dopamine every time we make a connection.” I love that concept. I talked about it all in my book The Business of Happiness as well. Let us all hear what Sherry has to say. Buy the book and read it in a physical format, too. For old time’s sake…
What I Read This Holiday Vacation
American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom.
This is a really excellent book about our economy and how poorly we manage our resources as a country. Click here for the website. Read this book.
Life by Keith Richards
The best biography I have read in a long time. Really stark and brutally honest. Awesome. Funny. True. Great photos, too!
Sunset Park by Paul Auster.Great writing. A small family drama and a neighborhood that I know as I grew up in Brooklyn right across the street from Sunset Park. An important book. A fast read, too.
Last Call by Daniel Okrent.
A great read about prohibition. Our history as a country centered on the consumption of alcohol; political lobbying; and consumer’s changing mores. Daniel Okrent is a great writer and researcher and this book is timely with the interest generated by Boardwalk Empire on HBO. I loved this book.
Great New Book
The Art of a Beautiful Game by Chris Ballard.
This is a wonderful read if you are a basketball fan.
“The Thinking Fan’s tour of the NBA.”
I liked this one very much. Short – crisp – a fun read!
I loved the chapter on point guards. You will too.
Thanks to Marymount University
Our neighbors at Kettler Capitals Iceplex.
Freshman students read my book as part of their business curriculum. I was honored to go speak to the freshman class. Click here to read this update. Thank you.
Very Nice of You
I am glad you enjoyed reading the book . Peace.
Two Books Worth Reading
Michael Lewis wrote a great book published by W.W.Norton and Company called The Big Short. He is a great writer. He wrote Money Ball as you know. The book really does a great job in trying to explain what happened to our economy over the last three years; what the heck a derivative really is; and why “quants” rule the world. It is a great read. I recommend it highly.
Then go read The House Advantage, a fantastic book by Jeffrey Ma, the young man from MIT who was a card-counting black jack winning card player profiled in the film “21.” My friend Jimmy Lynn gave me a copy to read this long weekend and I loved it.
The book is about analytics; sports; life and how math majors rule; and how if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. It is a great book for all you stat geeks. I am enjoying reading all of the books published about analytics; stats; how numbers can be so enlightening; how counterintuitive some initial gut reactions are; and how most people make decisions based on emotions not on real analysis.
What kind of critic/decision maker are you - emotional or rational? Analytic or gut-based? It says a lot about you and how well you will succeed in your chosen field.
Run – Don’t Walk
To your local book seller and buy Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides. It is the best book I have read this year, meticulously researched and written. It is a book about the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray and their collision of fate and the history of our country in the 60s. I couldn’t put it down. I devoured it. It is a magnificent work. Worth your time and money.