All memos tagged #book

The Four Agreements, was published in 1997 and has sold around 9 million copies. It has been on the New York Times Best selling list for almost a decade. Everything we do is based on agreements we hav...

'Ego Is The Enemy' is a #book by Ryan Holiday which discusses the treacherous nature of #ego; a modern work of practical #philosophy. [1] In it, Holiday posits that our biggest problems are not caused...

The Natural Economic Order by Silvio Gesell Gesell’s “free-money” (as he called it) bears a form of negative interest called demurrage. Periodically, a stamp costing a tiny fraction of the currency’s...

'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are' by Alan Watts is a must-read. In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and ada...

Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body is a #book that found me while browsing the The Iliad Bookshop for the first time, invited by Krystle Martin. We also found a book o...

'The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself' by Michael Singer. In reading this book, you’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your conscio...

'Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High'

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard asks, "Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the bra...

Spirit Check: Practical Solutions for Emotional Mastery was recommended to me by Ardon Lukas and was immediately purchased as a tool for training Spirit Check. More on this soon.

'The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich' by Tim Ferriss, more soon.

'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' is a #book by Cory Doctorow Recommended to me by Nick Barone.

'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity' is a breathtaking #book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made h...

The One Thing is a non-fiction, self-help book that discusses the value of simplifying one's workload by focusing on the one most important task in any given project. [4] The book discusses the benefi...

'Tao: The Watercourse Way' is a #book by Alan Watts. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The W...

The Devil's Dictionary is a virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, offering 1,600+ clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce...

'Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead' by social scientist Brené Brown ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthin...

'The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning' is and unconventional #book of wisdom and life advice from Scott Galloway; renowned business school professor and New Yor...

Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion,...

The Zero to One principle—detailed in the book published by the same title—posits that doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, thus adding more of something famili...