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Open
I remember seeing Andre Agassi on TV as a kid. I used to watch Wimbledon regularly during the summers. Since Wimbledon takes place in the UK, it was on in the mornings in the US, and during our long summer vacations, I always seemed to have time to watch. I’ve never followed tennis closely, but…
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The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life
I recently finished reading The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty. This was a book recommendation shared in one of Tim Ferriss’s Five Bullet Friday emails earlier this year (I think). I remember being intrigued by it and that I couldn’t find it in Kindle format, so I forgot about it for a…
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Designing the mind
Do I need to read another book on self-improvement, and did this book help me learn anything new? I would say yes and yes.
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Little, Big
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad. It is usually both. Robert Musil I certainly wouldn’t consider Little, Big by John Crowley one of the best novels I’ve ever read, or would I? It’s certainly one of the most interestingly strange and effecting fiction…
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Atomic habits
Although I write and think a lot about habits, I hadn’t read Atomic Habits by James Clear until very recently. It had been on my reading list for a while, and I finally got around to it and finished it last week. I’m working on a habit change experiment with my physical health this month…
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Opposites attract
I just finished reading Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee. Enjoyed it more that I thought I would. The premise isn’t all that exciting, like most McPhee books (his compendium about the geological history of North America won the Pulitzer prize!), but it was hard to put down. The portraits of the main characters…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
