Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Book Review: Buying In

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Books | No Comments »

My wife bought Rob Walker's Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are.  Since I have so much time due to my waking up at 6am, I was able to read this book before my ...

Book Review: The Knowing-Doing Gap

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Books | 3 Comments »

My current Test Drive a Habit challenge of waking up at 6am every morning has had a good side effect of allowing me a ton of time to read.  This past week I read a book that has been on ...

Book Review: Winning at All Costs

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer by John Foot. This book has been on my shelf for about 6 months.  I have been intimidated by the 500 pages and a little concerned about how interesting a book ...

Book Review: Energy Victory

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Books | 2 Comments »

I just finished reading Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil by Robert Zubrin ironically on the day with the highest gas prices ever.  Unfortunately, the highest gas prices ever will probably occur tomorrow and ...

Stumbling On Happiness

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Books | No Comments »

I read a great post on a productivity blog that I regularly keep up with.  The blog is Trizle.com and the post is entitled Why Your Future Sucks.  The post reminded me of a book I read last year by ...

Book Review: Love & Blood

Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in Books | 2 Comments »

Love & Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks by Jamie Trecker I am a rare American, maybe the rarest.  I'm a die hard passionate soccer fan in the rural Midwest that never played or watched soccer ...