This is one of the more interesting books in our library. It came into our collection through my wife, who presumably got this whilst attending college in Boston, though its exact origin is unknown. I’ve studied and browsed it. While not entirely clear, it would appear to be a sort of periodical of essays; though [...]

This site gets a good majority of hits from the Google search, “Clifton Strength Finder“.
If that’s why you are here right now, thank you for stopping by. You are probably here for this. I hope it interests you. The rest of the site probably won’t. But you could check out the [...]

Often times things that may pertain to the purpose of this site will fly right through my head, several times, without ever landing on this page. As I watched the devastation of New Orleans last month, one of my selfish concerns — in the midst of the human tragedy that will remain seared in [...]

The philosophy here is that each person has strengths as well as weaknesses. At work, we can either spend a lifetime being miserable and trying to compensate for where we have shortcomings; or we can discover our strengths and spend our time developing them and maximizing them. In this new paradigm, managers can [...]

As the impact of the holocaust recedes out of living memory forever, Amis renders the event anew. The narrator is an intelligent passenger inside the head of a man as his life unfolds in reverse. The narrator is intelligent, though his conclusions are based upon a world where letters first spring from fire and then [...]

If you’ve read any of the articles on this site, you may notice that a common motif is my disdain for how scientific fields have appropriated ancient wisdom from artists and philosophers only to pass it off as their own. Furthermore, they do this with the sanctioned power of the modern purveyors and guardians [...]

Phil has sent me some good links today. I’m reading Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, by Steven Johnson right now, so we’ve been having some fun discussions about consciousness and “ego” and the like.

I’m halfway through Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and cannot help being insulted by its tone, presentation and its content. Yet despite this fact, I have still have not officially tossed it aside.

Mark’s blog is a good read. Today I noticed he had an outstanding list of books, some of which I’ve read and others look to exciting. They’re pretty much all the types of books you’ll see on this site. Check it out!

As most of my fellow countrymen spend the day celebrating America and its independence, I’ve been making hasty preparations to leave it. On Wednesday, I depart for Istanbul (not “Naboo, but from this photo of Hagia Sofia, you’d never know). This trip was put together on very short notice: under a month. [...]