Dead Wake is a non-fiction account of what happened to the Lusitania, the ocean liner sunk by a German u-boat that led to the the United States joining WWI. That was the extent of my knowledge about the topic prior to this book. I remember learning about the sinking of the Lusitania in high school but like most US history classes, we were racing through the 20th century at the end of the school year so it was a footnote, along with the Zimmerman Telegram […]
He’s Running, but also, Let’s Fight!!! – aka I wrote 1000+ words because I hated it
Oh boy! I have so many thoughts that I took notes on the things I wanted to write about for this one. Let’s do this: I read this book because I know a little bit about Senator Sasse. I knew he has a Ph.D in history from Yale and was a university president all before becoming a senator at age 41. I knew he was a Republican who was savvy on social media, specifically Twitter. He first gained notoriety, to me at least, by penning […]
Professional Reading #1
It Worked for Me is a collection of about 30 vignettes and stories intended to offer leadership advice from one of America’s most famous military leaders of the last 35 years. I think it does that and does it well. Powell reflects on a life of service, both military and civilian, and recounts instances when he made decisions and describes the generalized thoughts and ideas that led to the choices he made. This book, let’s call it a memoir, feels quite genuine and honest but […]
Maybe we don’t think so good
This book, by the author of Moneyball, is essentially a biography of the two men who did more to change the way we think about thinking. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are Israeli psychologists who discovered heuristics and connected the fields psychology and economics, helping create the new field of behavioral economics. If you recognize either name, it is probably Daniel Kahneman who wrote the outstanding book Thinking, Fast and Slow a few years ago. At the beginning of that book he writes about his […]