The Anthropocene Reviewed (book review)
My son has been listening to more audiobooks since getting a job across town and needing something to occupy his mind on his commute. He recommended John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed, saying he connected more with it than with any book he’d read in years. I decided to give it a try, choosing to listen…
How to Take Smart Notes (Book Review)
It seems silly at this late date to write a review of one of the most influential books of the last several years, at least among knowledge workers, writers, and software developers. Anyone involved in PKM or BASB (Building a Second Brain) has no doubt already heard of this book and has probably read it…
Top 5 audiobooks I’ve listened to in the past year
Usually I prefer to read on my Kindle so that I can export my highlights to a notes app and keep them. When I listen to an audiobook, I don’t have an easy way to keep notes from it, and if I listen at night I’ll probably fall asleep and miss six hours of it.…
Finish (Book Review)
This book really found me where I live. There are a lot of books about goals and goal-setting, but this is the first one that really nailed why I wasn’t meeting my goals. In Finish, Jon Acuff discusses the most important day of the goal. Not day one. We’ve all gotten off to a great…
Refuse to Choose! (Book Review)
This is one of my favorite books of all time. I read it years before I even knew I had ADHD and I still browse through it periodically. Recently I listened to the audiobook version read by Pam Ward. Barbara Sher was a practical author who wanted people to achieve their dreams. She wrote Wishcraft:…
Lazy Genius Kitchen (Book Review)
This is the book I needed and didn’t have years ago. Somehow I always managed to over complicate menu planning, grocery shopping and cooking to the point that it was an impossible task. And we all know what happens when meals become impossible: pizza or another burrito bowl. Here’s what I was doing in my…
My need for better notes
It all started in the doctor’s office, chatting with a nurse who was considering buying a Kindle. She hadn’t done much reading for pleasure since nursing school and she was looking forward to reading something that wasn’t related to her job. “I love my Kindle!” I enthused. “I read on it every morning while I…
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