Books
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You can finish reading Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz in just one night. That’s what I did. At more than 200 pages, I didn’t expect to breeze through this book. The chapters are straight to the point and have crisp prose — a…
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Kakuzo Okakura’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century classic is a fascinating ode to one of Japan’s most hallowed traditions: tea. Where it came from; how it’s cultivated, harvested, and stored; how it found its way to the West and how it captivated it; how it’s prepared for the famed tea ceremony, the height of elevating the mundane to utmost…
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My Harry Potter books! Reading JK Rowling’s fantastical modern classics opened wide for me the magical world of reading. They were the first thick books I’ve read. I still remember lining up at National Book Store to get my copy of the latest installation in the series. The thrill was indescribable. The books are now…
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One of the most tragic novels I’ve ever read, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four deserves its place in the canon of classics. The prose is gripping, lyrical in the right moments. Flashes of sadistic violence take turns with slow scenes of brightly lit torture. It’s a roller-coaster ride: it’s nauseating and you’re fastened to your seat.…
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All problems are idea problems. And the way to solve them is to flood them with ideas first. That is how Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn frame their book, Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters (2022). Both Stanford design school professors, they argue that innovation begins with a habit of creating as many ideas…
Daryl Zamora 