Book Notes
Highlights from the recent books I’ve read.
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The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time (by Allen Gannett)
For so long, I believed that creativity was this magical thing—like finding your muse, or something that flows through your bloodline. I recall moments when, as a kid, I sat and thought deeply, waiting for the ideas to come to me and help me write. Then I read The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett. He Read more
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People like us (do things like this) by Seth Godin
You can download the PDF form of this special limited edition of People Like Us here. I like reading Seth Godin’s books and blogs, and this one was free and short—easy to dive into during a time when I was navigating spaces where I felt like an outsider, trying to understand the unspoken rules everyone Read more
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Life is in The Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Change (by Bruce Feiler)
I read this book during the pandemic, when I was out of work and disoriented about my identity after job titles were stripped away from me. Writing this now reminded me of the hours I spent watching the blue skies, letting the clouds pass me by, while tugging hard and keeping our goat Dolly from Read more
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The Adventures of Captain Horn
A bit of a backstory This is the book notes that started all the book notes I made. Wrote this around February in 2018, and for the first time, this draft finally gets a glimpse of what’s outside my computer folders. The time I poured into writing this now gets a chance to show off Read more