Greg McKeown rocked a lot of worlds in 2014 when he coached readers of his smash hit Essentialism that if an opportunity’s not a hell yeah, it’s a hell no. (And if ever there was a clearer or better way to simplify one’s life, please do share it.) He’s back with Effortless, a lather-rinse-repeat model for continuing to do the…
Spend It If You Got It
I happened to read Uncharted by Margaret Heffernan and Die With Zero by Bill Perkins around the same time. While her book says it’s folly to act as if we can predict what’s to come in life, his says we don’t need to over prepare. Different messages on the face of it and yet I found there to be a…
Never Meta Worse Pair
“The harms were baked into the design.” That’s one of the more memorable lines from the brand new book An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang, their investigation of Facebook (now, um, Meta). What comes out of the oven is piping hot junk, a enormous sugar cookie comprised of nonsense, hate, and lies, and the executives running the…
Tourism Takedown
Picture yourself at a luxurious beach resort: toes buried in soft sand, frosty umbrella drink by your side, with visions of that evening’s limitless dinner dancing in your head. You’re there to get away from it all (and pig out because dammit it’s all-inclusive and you paid for that cheesecake) and surely don’t for a second consider how the $9…
Beach Reads: Ahhhhhh!
The price of gas and the overall cost of travel notwithstanding, it appears folks are vacating their premises in every direction. Here’s hoping you’ve got time set aside to do a whole stack of nothing somewhere peaceful. And if a book might help, here are eight I’ve read lately that are all outstanding. Memoirs are my jam (you heard me)…