Book Recommendation:
“Lessons in the Fundamentals of GO“
by Toshiro Kageyama, 7-Dan
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What’s My Next Move?
Posted in Book Recomendation, Book Review, Business, Strategy, tagged Board Games, Business, GO, Strategy, Table Top on February 16, 2015| 4 Comments »
Growing Up Again
Posted in Book Recomendation, Book Review, Personal Restoration on January 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Book Recommendation:
“Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children.“
by Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson
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Who would benefit from reading this book?
Current or would-be parents.
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What could you get out of this book?
A systematic way of looking at parent child interactions, challenges for you to grow personally, and promptings for you to process through your upbringing.
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How long to read?
If you were to read it straight through, it would probably only take you one week or two. I took a couple of years. I read a chapter or two and then move on to other books and hobbies for a while, then revisit. Not because the book was dull, because with not having kids yet I was reading it more for the personal introspection.
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Pages & Highlights:
310 p. and 23 highlights
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Structure:
The authors parsed the book into eight sections. Sections 1 — 3 explain their system of viewing parenting, 4 — 5 overindulgence and denial, 6 prenatal and birth experience, 7 growing up again and again, 8 adoption.
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Thesis:
To parent our children well we need to fill in the gaps left by our upbringing.
How Do I Parent Well?
I do not have children. I want to have children, but I expect them to still be a number of years removed. Thinking about being a parent even with that buffer of time is one of the most sobering contemplations.
What’s on a Millionaire’s Shopping List?
Posted in Book Review, Personal Finance, tagged Book Recommendation, Book Review, Personal Finance, shopping list, Thomas J. Stanley on October 30, 2014| 2 Comments »
Book Recommendation:
“Stop Acting Rich: …And Start Living Like A Real Millionaire“
by Thomas J. Stanley
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Who would benefit from reading this book?
If you need encouragement about the path you are on making purchases based on value rather than prestige. If you are not on that path and perhaps you have confused success with purchasing rather than achieving.
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What could you get out of this book?
If you have read The Millionaire Next Door , I think the first thing you will get is encouragement if you are following the principles from that book. Second, the research described in the book provides a shopping list of brand that millionaires buy. I found this helpful because I struggle with wanting to buy value but it’s not clear to me when the cost is for branding frills or if I’m buying a product that will last additional years. If found Stanley’s research on the purchasing habits prescriptive.
If you’ve not familiar with his earlier work, you might get an adjusted worldview about how high net worth individuals act with their money.
What does a “75% Chance of Rain” mean?
Posted in Book Review, Mind Transmogrification, Stats Master on October 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Book Review: The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg
subtitle: ‘How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century’
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Who should read this book?
Someone wanting to know the backstory for how the daily statistical techniques we use to make decisions were developed. This should be on the bookshelf of any statistician. It can also be considered a generally interesting book for a lover of history.
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Time to Read
I read this book over the course of several months. It’s essentially a history and philosophy book delivered through a set of stories. I would usually read a few chapters, set it down for a month, then pick it up again. For me it was leisurely sort of read.
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Pages & Highlights
340 pages. There were about 70 sections that I noted or highlighted- about two or three ideas per chapter. Mostly I found something interesting about how techniques were generated, and occasionally my interest was piqued about a philosophical area of statistics.
Brain on Fire will ignite your compassion
Posted in Book Review on October 8, 2014| 1 Comment »
Book Review: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
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Who would benefit from reading this book?
If you have a one dimensional view of psychiatric and neurological issues, this book could be a gentle introduction into how complex diagnosing someone can be.
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What could you get out of this book?
Samuel Seibert 