Is big technology evil?
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us by Rana Foroohar **** Four of five stars Google, now one of...
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Dan Connors
Jan 14, 20203 min read
How can silence help us? A new book tries to cut through the noise.
Stillness Is the Key - Review by Ryan Holiday 2019 Four of five stars **** We live in a noisy world that would rather we don't think...
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Dan Connors
Jan 4, 20203 min read
How can we become more resilient?
Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson 2018 *** 3 of five stars Why is it that...
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Dan Connors
Dec 17, 20193 min read
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams- Book review
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams by Gabrielle Bernstein I chose this book initially because...
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Dan Connors
Dec 12, 20193 min read
Range- Why generalists triumph in a specialized world- Book review
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 2019 **** Four of five stars In many ways, specialists rule our...
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Dan Connors
Dec 5, 20193 min read
Unfu*k Yourself- Book review
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop 2016 This book is a short jolt of energy that is well...
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Dan Connors
Nov 27, 20195 min read
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To- Book Review
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To by David A. Sinclair 2019 Five of five stars ***** How would you feel about living an...
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Dan Connors
Nov 15, 20193 min read
This is not propaganda- book review
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev 2019 Lies, especially lies meant to change public...
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Dan Connors
Nov 12, 20193 min read
OK Boomer- a Generation of Sociopaths?
Complaining about the younger generation is a natural part of becoming old. People have been doing it for centuries. Senior citizens...
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Dan Connors
Nov 8, 20195 min read
Give and Take- Why helping others drives our success- review
Give and Take- A revolutionary approach to success By Adam Grant 2013 Four of five stars **** Who prospers more- those who give or...
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Dan Connors
Nov 4, 20195 min read
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West- Book Review
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham 2019 ***** Five of Five...
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Dan Connors
Oct 21, 20193 min read
Influence- The Psychology of Persuasion
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini 2006 ***** Five of five stars This book should be banned. (kidding). ...
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Dan Connors
Oct 18, 20195 min read
Strike three- is baseball out?
Strike one- my favorite team, the St. Louis Cardinals lost in the playoff championship series. No biggie. There's always next year....
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Dan Connors
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Happiness is the Way
Happiness Is the Way: How to Reframe Your Thinking and Work with What You Already Have to Live the Life of Your Dreams by Wayne W. Dyer...
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Dan Connors
Sep 30, 20193 min read
Feeding you lies
Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry’s Playbook and Reclaim Your Health by Vani Hari 2019 Four of five stars ****...
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Dan Connors
Sep 22, 20193 min read
The Talent Code
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else by Daniel Coyle 2009 Four...
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Dan Connors
Sep 13, 20192 min read
Know-It-All Society
Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture by Michael P. Lynch 4 of 5 stars. **** "There's nothing certain except...
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Dan Connors
Aug 30, 20193 min read
The Nonsense Factory- book review
I enjoyed Mr. Gibney's first book, A Generation of Psychopaths, about how the baby boomers have messed things up, so I was eager to...
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Dan Connors
Aug 16, 20193 min read
Code Blue- book review
Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee As one who has luckily avoided the medical industrial complex for...
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Dan Connors
Aug 11, 20194 min read
Hello World!- Book Review
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry ***** Five of five stars Algorithms control our lives. That's a...
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