Read Jim VandeHei’s excellent book to instigate your own thinking about where your individual genius lies, and what to do and not do once you’ve happened on the most important discovery of your lifetime.
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If you’re interested in or remember John Wooden and UCLA’s basketball dynasty, you’ll enjoy Scott Howard-Cooper’s new book, Kingdom on Fire. It’s a fun read that shines a light on Wooden’s genius, while also reminding readers how much fun college sports used to be, including the formerly great UCLA/Notre Dame basketball rivalry.
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Morrow’s book is another very entertaining look back at how things used to be in media. It’s a great read, and that’s why at 180 pages it’s too short. The book is titled “The Noise of Typewriters.”
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David Bahnsen’s excellent new book is titled Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. In it he makes a case that we were put here to produce.
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Early on in Blood River, Tim Butcher’s difficult-to-put-down but incredibly sad memoir of his trip across the Congo, he writes that it’s a place where “the normal rules of human development and advancement simply don’t apply.”
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No one chooses to be an entrepreneur, instead entrepreneurial activity is an expression of disdain for how things are done. If innovation were a choice, none would pursue it given the extremely low odds of altering the course of business.
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I like the stories about how media used to be. Calvin Trillin has been at it since the 1950s, which means his book, ‘The Lede’, is full of old columns by him remembering the massive expense accounts of old, the characters who spent the money, along with great stories about the people writing the stories. This was a really fun read.
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Joseph Epstein has been writing really great books and columns for years, including one on gambling in the Wall Street Journal last week. He’s always entertaining, and his autobiography is no exception.
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As always, what’s the point of trying to get through the long Russian novels without writing out the alleged insights? The Brothers Karamazov was much more difficult to follow than Crime and Punishment, which means it requires another read that I probably won’t get around to.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is very sad, frequently hard to understand, but ultimately very difficult to put down.
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