Archive - Book Thoughts

Fortune's Children

How to destroy billions of dollars

May 6 •

April 2024

And why I'm done reading parenting books for now

Apr 8 •

March 2024

What I've Been Reading (March 2024)

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager I read this as part of my goal to read more about “the…

Mar 18 •

February 2024

Thoughts on writing a newsletter: 5 years later

I started writing these emails 5 years ago. After writing about 80 of them, I wanted to reflect on my experience and what I’ve learned. I’ll be back…

Feb 26 •

January 2024

Being the best in the world at something you hate

Jan 29 •

How to Know a Person

A different model of heroism

Jan 16 •

Thoughts and reflections from 50+ books

Jan 3 •

December 2023

Among the Truthers

Conspiracy theories and the people who love them

Dec 18, 2023 •

November 2023

What I've Been Reading (November 2023)

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson Interesting book on human performance in endurance / speed…

Nov 20, 2023 •

September 2023

Sep 11, 2023 •

August 2023

"You think architects design buildings, but actually we just arrange parking spaces"

Aug 28, 2023 •

What I've Been Reading (August 2023)

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, by Ben Smith Traffic: Account of the history of online publications like…

Aug 14, 2023 •

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