Reading List

Keeping track of my habit....knowledge is power.

• White Fragility: Why it's so hard to talk about racism, by Robin DiAngelo
• White Trash: the 400-year history of class in America, by Nancy Isenberg
• Hillbilly Elegy: Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
• These Truths, by Jill Lepore
• Growth, by Vaclav Smil
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth
• The Algebra of Happiness: Notes On the Pursuit of Success, Love and Meaning, by Scott Galloway
• Brief Answers to Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking
• The Tangled Tree: Radical New History of Life, by David Quammen
• Paddle Your Own Canoe, One Man's Fundamentals, by Nick Offerman
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
• Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
• All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, by Elizabeth & Amelia Warren
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it got that way, by Bill Bryson
• Dear Bob and Sue, Journey to all 59 National Parks, by Matt and Karen Smith
• Braving the Wilderness: Quest for True Belonging, by Brene Brown
• Mindset: New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
• Leaders Eat Last, by Simon Sinek
• Power of Less: Limiting Yourself to the Essentials, by Leo Babauta
• Made to Stick; Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip and Dan Heath
• Blue Ocean Strategy; Create How to Create an Uncontested Market Space, by Chan Kim
• Getting Things Done: Time Management Method by David Allen
• The Innovator's Dilemma: New Tech Causes Great Firms to Fall by Clayton Christensen
• Rework by Jason Fried, by David Hansson
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Ideas by Warren Berger
• Turn the Ship Around! Turning Followers into Leaders by David Marquet
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath
• Lead With a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives, by Paul Smith
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny
• Smart Power: Climate Change, The Smart Grid & The Future of Electric Utilities, by Peter Fox Penner, James Rogers
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
• Thank you for Arguing, by Jay Heinrichs
• In the Land of Invented Languages: To Build a Perfect Language, by Arika Okrent
• The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, by John Pollack
• Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder, by David Quammen
• The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, by David Quammen
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• The Way We Never Were, The Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz

Podcast of Interest ... learn and grow every day.

• LinkedIn Learning, PCM Digital Marketing Series
• TED Talks; Business – How to Work Smarter (11 Talks)
• HBR IdeaCast
• Stuff You Should Know
• Freakonomics
• RadioLab
• Pod Save America
• Planet Money
• The Moth
• Hardcore History