So here I am starting the second week of the second year of this Daily Blog Project. It feels a little weird calling it the “365 Day Blogging Project” because obviously it…
Category: Books
Day 365: Grant’s Virtues
I continue to enjoy Ron Chernow’s “Grant.” In fact, if the Warren Buffet biography was to me a continuous revelation, “Grant” is a continuous joy. I have been repeatedly moved by the…
Day 364: Don’t Take It Personally
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from…
Day 356: “The Artist’s Way” and Open Creative Valves
Back when I was in high school, a friend of mine interested me to an interesting book called “The Artist’s Way.” In it, author Julia Cameron designed a workshop of sorts–on paper–where…
Day 350: Ullysses S. Grant’s Highly Sensitive Nature
After completing the Buffett biography last week, which I savored with a relish that epitomizes why I love reading (I loved this book!), I didn’t miss a beat in picking up another…
Day 345: Thoughts on Alice Schroeder’s Buffett biography
On Friday I finished the Buffett biography “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice Schroeder. In all, it took me just over two months, at the pace of…
Day 315: Slow and steady (still) wins the race!
A long time ago in a blog post far, far away, I wrote about how slow and steady wins the race. I was making the point that often in life it can…
Day 306: Sucked into the Internet Vortex!
Oh shit man. I’ve been sucked down the Internet Vortex! It happens to most people now and then. You start looking, then next thing you know, you have clicked on one site,…
Day 304: Don’t just do something… sit there!
Several years ago, my wife got me a subscription to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Generally, I enjoy flipping through it, as everything in the magazine tends to be about managing one’s money…
Day 301: Warren Buffett’s “Bathtub Memory”
I am currently working through an excellent biography of Warren Buffet: “The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life,” by Alice Schroeder. This book is long–over 800 pages–yet is well-written and…