Reading Recommendations

Select reading recommendations; each book listed below in its own way stayed with me long after the end. These are heavy on ideas, fun, informative and will challenge your thinking. Happy Reading!

1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H Pink. A unique perspective on motivation, engagement and what it means considering the baggage of assumptions and misunderstandings. Insightful read.

2. Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman. A look at the history and evolution of work from pre-historic times to modern era and our relationship to it.

3. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger. Determination, alignment to purpose and a sense of destiny drove a small band of folks to achieve liftoff and, subsequently save the company.

4. It’s Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong. Beautifully written….A tale of tribal affiliations, politics, corruption and the fight against graft. Oftentimes hard to read, it provides contextual information on the various issues acting as roadblocks.

5. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A dying earth leading to outbound journeys. Neat concepts such as terraforming of planets, upload of consciousness in systems, interventions to accelerate evolution and vividly imagined alien civilizations.?