7 min read ⌚ Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century What if someone told you that there are serious indicators attesting that we are experiencing the beginning of the end of American capitalism? And what if that same guy added that, in fact, American capitalism wasn’t that great to begin with – but just […]
6 min read ⌚ How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable If you know anything about Patrick Lencioni, you probably didn’t need that subtitle: of course, it’s a leadership fable, possibly one of your favorites! This one’s about “The Ideal Team Player.” Who Should Read “The Ideal Team Player”? And […]
6 min read ⌚ The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life “I Contain Multitudes” is a verse written by Walt Whitman, used, obviously, in a strictly metaphorical sense. Well, Ed Yong borrows it to talk about something much more literal. Of course it’s a book about microbes! Who Should Read “I Contain Multitudes”? And […]
7 min read ⌚ How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Steve Jobs once said that taking LSD was not merely “a profound experience,” but also “one of the two or three most important things” he had done in his life. “Stealing Fire” may hold the answer […]
5 min read ⌚ The book is basically the heart of South Africa, as it covers both sides of the story. The racial intolerance is spreading, and the apartheid era is going in history. Now, an independent state, the South Africans can look back, and see how these ethnic prejudices hampered the technological and industrial progression […]
5 min read ⌚ The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II How many times have we heard about the exploitation and killings of Jews, and just bypassing the destiny of the African-Americans? Although organized extermination was never the goal; slavery was seen as the quickest way of becoming rich. Let’s […]
5 min read ⌚ Let us tell you three things about “Tell Me Three Things”: #1. The debut YA novel by Julie Buxbaum, the book was a critically acclaimed “New York Times” bestseller; #2. The novel is a “perfect mix of comedy and tragedy, love and loss, and pain and elation”; #3. It has one of […]
7 min read ⌚ Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely considered to have been one of the greatest – if not the greatest –philosopher of the 20th century. At about 80 pages, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” is the only book he published during his lifetime. And for some time – if you had asked Wittgenstein and his followers – it was […]
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