Blink is Malcolm Glaswell’s take on the art of making snap decisions that in many cases out perform a long, drawn out response. We’ve all been in situations where we thought, planned, and deliberated so long on something and it still ended up turning out wrong. Blink takes this phenomenon of “thin-slicing” and examines it [...]
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Women in Love is a continuation of DH Lawrence’s story of the Brangwen sisters first introduced in Rainbow. This novel revolves around the two Brangwen sisters and their loves, Gerald and Birkin who also share an unspoken love of each other. The novel takes an a completely different style from Rainbow. The first half is [...]
Eyeless in Gaza is a novel exploring the spiritual roots of virtue and vice through Anthony and Brian. Anthony is shy and delicate, armored in intellectual cynicism and passivity. Anthony’s lack of conviction and moral cowardice lies in contrast to his outward beauty and intellectual powers. Brian is a kind and gentle soul with a [...]
The Rainbow is a sensuous novel following three generations of Brangwens, a well to do farming family in the rural midlands of England, starting with Tom Brangwen, his Polish step daughter and finally Ursula (his grand daughter). D.H. Lawrence was a controversial writer of his time for his exploration of sensuality and this novel is [...]
Founders at Work certainly lives up to expectations. If you’re looking for inspiration on how people bootstrapped themselves in the tech sector to wild success here it is. Now, as a chronicle of the nascent IT sector at this point in history, there are a lot of people who were at the right place at [...]
Imagine a world of plenty where all the social ills that plague civilization are cured or relegated to irrelevance. It’s a world divided into castes, each bred to fully conform to their social stations. It’s a world where there are no parents and children are manufactured in vitro as batches of identical children. People are [...]
Time Machine is a novel by H.G. Wells set in Victorian London documenting the amazing journey of a lone wolf scientist 800,000 years into the future of humanity. What he finds is not the utopia of advanced civilization he had hoped for but humans degenerated into the happy, simple-minded, and fragile Eloi who are descended [...]
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama is an unique and remarkable work that captures the essence of the man. The beauty of this book is its ability to capture Obama the father, the politician, and the American. It captures the driving forces in American politics from political parties, values, the Constitution, politics, opportunity, faith, [...]
This book was a masterful journey coming full circle from George Bush Sr.’s unsuccessful second term bid, Clinton’s excursions into Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia to George Bush Jr.’s ascendance. The book presents a new kind of war, the precision-driven air strike that can immobilize a weaker enemy with brutal force without the massive innocent bloodshed [...]
Been using as much free time as possible to read. It’s not that I haven’t been reading anything these past couple of years. If anything I’ve been reading tons of blogs and postings of various sorts. However, it’s apparent that the words you see on a screen are not the same as the words your [...]