Below are a half-dozen books I’ve read lately for fun. If you’re looking for something worthwhile for your summer break, you might consideration any of these. Relentless, Julian Edelman – Yup, the wide receiver/model/social media stud is also an author. Much to my amazement (and perhaps yours), his memoir is a legit page-turner. Edelman was coached by a maniacal father…
Author: Chris Bond
Book Report – The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Rather than a standard review of Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project, below is a list of handy takeaways from his latest masterpiece. This one tells the story of the intense working relationship between renowned psychologists Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky and their impact on behavioral economics (with all quotes below credited to Lewis). Confirmation bias: A condition that happens without…
Book Report – The Chickenshit Club by Jesse Eisinger
Ever wake up in the middle of the night, startled, sweating, and on the brink of lunacy, wondering why on earth no executives who helped cause our recent global recession have done even one day of jail time? Well kids, Jesse Eisinger has answers to that question and more in his 2017 corker, The Chickenshit Club. He ends Chapter One with a…
Book Report – Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Under the tree this past Christmas was my very first piece of Patagonia clothing: a greyish quarter-zip, as I now know them to be called. Late to the party, I’ve only recently become aware of how special the Ventura, CA company is when it comes to charitable causes, treatment of its workforce, and manufacturing sustainability, so getting some sort of…
Seven-Year Glitch: Patience & Other Lessons
In the winter of 2011, I received an inquiry from three brothers who owned an irrigation company. They had come off another monster season of installing and servicing systems (and then plowing snow to continue to pay the bills) and they were wiped out. Already having surpassed 20 years in business together – and far more than that in the…