George Carlin, RIP
Last Words George Carlin with Tony Hendra, 2009 Every year I make a point to read a book about a famous comedian, and for 2021 that...
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Dan Connors
May 8, 20218 min read
Bill Gates on Climate Change
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Bill Gates, 2021 Billionaires are running our world,...
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Dan Connors
May 2, 20215 min read
Refugees, genocide, and human rights. What should be done? What can be done?
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power 2019 What is America's place in the world? Does our exceptionalism give us a...
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Dan Connors
Apr 20, 20214 min read
What have we learned from Covid-19?
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria 2020 The Covid-19 epidemic may well turn out to be a transformational event for...
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Dan Connors
Apr 17, 20217 min read
Think you know it all, eh? Think again bucko!
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Adam Grant 2021 How do we know what we know? Can we be...
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Dan Connors
Apr 14, 20214 min read
White men- Heroes or entitled mediocrities?
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo 2020 We like to think that in some important way that the world...
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Dan Connors
Apr 11, 20214 min read
Dopamine- the spark of creativity and addiction
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human...
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Dan Connors
Mar 21, 20216 min read
McDonald's, Amazon or Convergys- are today's employers stressing us out?
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane Emily Guendelsberger 2019 How does your job treat you these...
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Dan Connors
Mar 7, 20217 min read
Caste- The cruelest pyramid scheme
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson 2020 There are three glaring examples in history of castes that divided nations-...
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Dan Connors
Feb 20, 20216 min read
The Upswing- Are we finally nearing the bottom of a century -long historical cycle?
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Robert Putnam 2020 “All of history, a great wheel,...
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Dan Connors
Feb 15, 20215 min read
The Future We Choose?
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac 2020 For all of history, mankind has seemed...
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Dan Connors
Feb 14, 20217 min read
May 1940- When the whole world went mad and one man stood up to inspired us all.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson 2020 On May 10,1940 Winston Churchill...
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Dan Connors
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Post Corona- How will our world change?
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
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Dan Connors
Jan 26, 20217 min read
30 Hours with Obama- A Promised Land Reviewed.
A Promised Land- (Presidential Memoirs part I) Barack Obama 2020 Generally I tend to shy away from autobiographies, because I see...
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Dan Connors
Jan 22, 20214 min read
Money- the key to happiness or the treadmill of misery?
The Psychology of Money- Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness Morgan Housel 2020 Money is one of the most important things...
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Dan Connors
Jan 16, 20214 min read
Is Love the Way? Essays from America's Pope
Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times Bishop Michael Curry, Sara Grace As a religious skeptic, I tend to look at...
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Dan Connors
Jan 10, 20215 min read
Subliminal - An entire world that both saves us and deceives us
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow 2012 Look at the tasty photo above. In addition to selling...
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Dan Connors
Dec 28, 20205 min read
How to not be an emotional moron. What quadrant are you in right now?
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive Mark Brackett 2019 Are emotions...
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Dan Connors
Dec 22, 20207 min read
Beating the Loneliness Epidemic- straight from the US Surgeon General
Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness Vivek Murthy, 2020 Loneliness...
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Dan Connors
Dec 17, 20204 min read
Black Swans- or why all predictions about the future are screwed.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 What do 9/11, Google, the Great Recession, Covid-19,...
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