7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But True—Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your CareerJeffrey PfefferDNF “Most fundamentally, power is a tool. Like many or maybe most tools, power, once mastered, can be used to accomplish great things, horrendously terrible things, and everything in between. The point: Don’t confuse or conflate your reactions to…
Tag: Fiction
Category: Review
What I read: January 2025
Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëBook club “I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.” After eight years as a student and teacher at Lowood School, orphan Jane Eyre is anxious…
What I read: December 2024
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress CycleEmily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski “In short, emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.” The number of people experiencing burnout has skyrocketed in recent years. No one is…
What I read: November 2024
ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHDPenn Holderness with Kim Holderness “Dr. Hallowell describes people with ADHD as having a Ferrari engine in a race car brain with bicycle brakes.” YouTube creator Penn Holderness was diagnosed with ADHD in college. Now he and his wife Kim have written ADHD is Awesome to…
What I read: October 2024
A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Gamache #2)Louise Penny “I think people who have had that experience and survived have a responsibility to help others. We can’t let someone drown where we were saved.” When the newest resident of Three Pines is electrocuted in broad daylight in front of the whole town, few mourn her loss…