9 Key Takeaways from Quietly Influential by Jimmy Lai I recently read Jimmy Lai’s book, Quietly Influential, and found it so useful that I wrote a blog on it because there was too much valuable information for a social media post. The book is about how...
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Book Review – Discipline Equals Freedom: A Field Manual by Jocko Willink
Book Review - Discipline Equals Freedom: A Field Manual by Jocko Willink I enjoyed Discipline Equals Freedom: A Field Manual and got a lot out of it. Although I consider myself a disciplined person, I still had a lot of great takeaways from this book. I also...
Book Review: Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow The best book I read last year was the biography of Mark Twain. There were many lessons in it, but the biggest one I took away was the power of humor. Mark Twain made his career by taking on serious issues in a humorous way. He lived...
Reflecting on Model Citizen: The Book I Didn’t Publish
Reflecting on Model Citizen: The Book I Didn't Publish I wrote a book I never published and probably never will. At the time, I considered it a failure. But that book wasn't meant to make me famous. It wasn't meant to launch me into the stratosphere with Mark...
Book Review: Pipe Dreams by Kelly Slater
These are my notes from Pipe Dreams by Kelly Slater. I enjoyed reading this book and learning about Kelly's story. He is honest about his fear of big waves as a kid, which is something I can relate to as someone who is learning how to surf. I would recommend this...
Book Review: Liferider by Laird Hamilton
I enjoyed reading Liferider by Laird Hamilton. One thing that I liked about it is you get his wife, Gabby Reese's observations about Laird. Sometimes you learn more from what the people closest to a person say about them than you do from anything they could say...






