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Books
Missoula
Missoula, Jon Krakauer I’m always a big fan of Krakauer’s writing and this was no exception. Pretty sobering dive into an epidemic of rapes at […]
Greenlights
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey Goodreads: I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries […]
3 Shades of Blue
3 Shades of Blue, James Kaplan Goodreads: From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the […]
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson Goodreads: In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented […]
Nudge
Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein Goodreads: Every day we make choices – about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s […]
Surviving Death
Surviving Death, Leslie Kean Another $1 purchase at the Friends of the Healdsburg Library sale, blurb sounded interesting so I grabbed it… The first half […]
The Land Before Avocado
The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover A handful of copies of this were sitting out on the giveaway table at a client’s head office, so […]
A Promised Land
A Promised Land, Barack Obama Regardless of what you think of his politics, Obama is such an excellent writer. A Promised Land also provides an […]
Wealth
Wealth, Stuart Lucas Was put onto this by a friend of mine who works in the family office space. Some really interesting chapters about safe […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann Goodreads: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation […]
Wild Horse Country
Wild Horse Country, David Philipps Goodreads: The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know […]
The Prize
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin This book is a tome of 900+ pages of small print and took […]
When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut One of my favorite books of 2023, without a doubt. It’s like a whole new genre, […]
Build
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, Tony Fadell I think I would have taken more from if it I was a founder […]
The New Silk Roads
The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan This was interesting, but as it’s written about present day and published in 2019 it was a little like […]
Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb I really loved The Black Swan – the book that brought Taleb fame – but unfortunately he’s continued […]
The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Goodreads: For readers of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team […]
The End of the Golden Gate
The End of the Golden Gate, Gary Kamiya Really enjoyed this collection of short stories, a must read for anyone who has lived some part […]
Feral
Feral, George Monbiot Goodreads: This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that transform our understanding of how natural systems […]