I don’t say this too often, but drop what you’re doing and grab a copy of Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear by Hugh McLeod. I Loved this one. In a matter of a couple of hours hours, his pithy collection of wisdom builds a case for cheap, easy, global media and its ability to cultivate personal freedom. From mini-chapters like It’s Never Been Easier to Spot a ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear
Book Notes: The Creative Destruction of Medicine
It's arrived: The Creative Destruction of Medicine – How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care, Eric Topol’s prescient view of the near future of medicine. This book details how four areas of digital medicine – wireless sensors, genomics, imaging and health information – are about to undergo a super-convergence marking perhaps the most disruptive ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Creative Destruction of Medicine
4 Reasons You Should Read Enchantment
Last week I read Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki. Enchantment is a modern guide ‘the art of influence and persuasion’ that offers solid, practical advice on how work with people to get things done. It’s a unique manifesto for personal conduct – a guide to the moral exertion of influence. Read Enchantment. Here’s why: It’s written for everyone. Enchantment is a ... Continue Reading about 4 Reasons You Should Read Enchantment
Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
This week I read Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. It offers a powerful look at how connectedness influences behaviors such as happiness, loneliness and even the predisposition for suicide. Christakis and Fowler introduce the idea that social networks obey the Three Degrees ... Continue Reading about Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks
The Social Animal by David Brooks
This week I read The Social Animal by David Brooks. The Social Animal looks to tell us how we become who we are – how we develop wisdom and character. The source of who we become lurks below the surface and is inherently linked to our early relationships. Despite Brook’s compulsive research, this is not a science book – it’s ultimately about emotion and ... Continue Reading about The Social Animal by David Brooks
Book Notes: The Emperor of All Maladies
I recently read The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a rich account of how modern medical science has come to understand and treat cancer. Cancer, I learned, is largely a preoccupation of modern times. Cancer was hardly a concern before the early 20th century when pneumonia and tuberculosis were the number one killers. We now live long enough to ... Continue Reading about Book Notes: The Emperor of All Maladies