Thursday, December 31, 2015

Ghost Soliders by Hampton Sides

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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides was a really good book with the subtitle  The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission ....

Interesting business writing - on hacking medical devices, building a self-driving car, and the Tesla Gigafactory

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Three different pieces of business writing that struck me as interesting recently included an important look at medical device security and ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall

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Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall is his latest book, following on the heels of Born to Run from 2011, and I enjoyed Born to R...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Great stories on life & death - by O'Connor, Dubois, & Rosin

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Three different pieces of writing I've seen over the past few weeks grouped together as being very profound and well written. The two ...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Writers on writing - with pieces by Saunders, Murakami, Jones, Van Valkenburg & Fagone

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There's been a number of excellent pieces I've seen over the past couple of months around the craft of writing, including ones on be...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Four pieces of excellent writing - by Follman, Kristof, Fagone, and MacGregor

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A few pieces of great recent writing to note here included ones that are important, uplifting, disconcerting, and just plain smile-inducing....
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Great feature story by Eli Saslow on a high school football death

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There was really an amazing story in the latest ESPN The Magazine with Eli Saslow writing "Why Him? Why Me?" on a recent death du...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price

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Pitching Around Fidel by S.L. Price was an interesting book from 2000 with the subtitle A Journey Into the Heart of Cuban Sports . Price i...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Martian by Andy Weir

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The Martian by Andy Weir was a really enjoyable novel, with the below description taken from it's Amazon page. The book was def...

Great sports writing - on Aaron Rodgers, Chris Bosh, Mark Davis, and Rodney Culver

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There were a few really good pieces of sports writing to note here that I've seen over the past few weeks, including two features from S...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid was a novel that traces through someone's life born into third-world poverty. ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson is the third novel in the Millennium Series on main characters Lisbeth Salander...

Great stories on family - Warren about C.J. Chivers & Joe Posnanski about his daughter

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Two pieces of writing I've read fairly recently and keep thinking on both deal with family and our interactions with and what we do for ...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Interesting business writing - on Uber, Slack, Google Cardboard, and financial manipulation

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Recently there were a few excellent pieces of business writing from the latest issues of Fast Company and Bloomberg Businessweek. From Bus...

Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson

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Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson was a really entertaining book about accomplished scuba diving deep sea explorers and the search for a sun...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Current writers whose work I look for

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Related to a post I did back in 2011 titled "Waiting on Writing: Good Authors - Good Books,"  I wanted to list out the current wri...

Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey

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Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey was a solid book on how we as a people treat the environment, animals in it and specifically as the sub...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Great business writing - on MLB Advanced Media, Tesla, Amazon, and working a career

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There's been some really interesting business writing lately to note here, including several company profiles as well as pieces around t...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Great sports stories - by Bissinger, Beech, Delle Donne & Doyel

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Some fairly recent sports writing to note here included ones were about heartwarming and amazing stories as well as two pieces that very muc...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides

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In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides was an excellent adventure yarn with the subtitle The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Je...