words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

My new book - Business Writing to Remember

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This blog has always served dual purposes through the time I've written it, to be both a compilation of links to great writing and body ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson was an amazing biography of sorts from the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama an...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Favorite business writing linked to - on Twitter, Netflix, Facebook, Declara & Tankchair

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With this the final post I've got planned around my favorite business writing linked to so far, organized by category into various posts...

Favorite business writing linked to - on security

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While the last few posts to my series of favorite business writing I've seen have been on technology companies (with the most recent abo...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Favorite business writing linked to - on Apple

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Following up on my most recent post in my "favorite business writing" series, that one about writing on Amazon , below are the bes...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Favorite business writing linked to - on Amazon (including Zappos)

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With my having done half a dozen posts over the past few weeks on favorite business writing I've linked to, with each post containing li...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Favorite business writing linked to - on Google (including Nest)

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With the last post made in this series on my favorite business writing linked to having been on Tesla Motors , below is a listing of my favo...

Favorite business writing linked to - on Tesla Motors / electric cars

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With the last post made in this series on my favorite business writing linked to having been on solid writing about power generation and man...

Favorite business writing linked to - on power generation and management

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As the follow-on to my prior post "Favorite business writing linked to - on manufacturing and/or resource utilization,"  which had...
Monday, December 08, 2014

Favorite business writing linked to - on manufacturing and/or resource utilization

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As part of the aggregation project I've been working on around my favorite and most impactful business writing, including past posts don...

Favorite business writing linked to - on venture capital

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I made reference to the concept in a post just done on great business-related health care writing and the second category of great business...

Favorite business writing linked to - on health care

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One thing I've been thinking about lately in relation to my writing here has been how to best aggregate what I've written... with th...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Well done stories of deception - by Ronson, Tower & Moore

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Three really well written stories of great deception from the past month included pieces from The Guardian, GQ and the BBC. Written for Th...

Interesting business writing - on Tesla & Google related topics

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Some interesting business writing I've seen lately included two large features from Fortune along with several short pieces of note publ...

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain was a bestselling autobiography from 2000 that covered a l...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Writing on space travel - by Chris Jones and others

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After growing tired of waiting for the print edition of Esquire to arrive in the mail, I purchased for $2.99 the story "Away" wri...

Writing on actions in the face of danger - by Brooke Jarvis & William Langewiesche

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Two great pieces of recent writing very much dealt in the areas of danger and actions taken in the face of danger, with one about people for...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Great sports writing - by Mooney, Price & Ballard

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Three recent great pieces of sports writing included work by some of my favorite sports writers in  Michael Mooney ,  S.L. Price &  Chri...

Interesting business writing - on Keyssa, Anthony Bourdain & income equality

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Three different pieces of interesting business writing I've seen included stories from Fast Company , New Republic and Businessweek . ...

Skink - No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen

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Skink - No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen was an easy and entertaining read from the humorist that I've now read close to a dozen books fro...
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