Books

Elon Musk

Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson Love him or hate him, Musk has likely been the most influential single person of our generation. Probably multiple genrations. Isaacson’s […]

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 […]