One of my favorite parts of this book revolve around the topic of self-sabotaging our own creativity: 📝 “Some of the malevolent complexes’ favorite thieveries and punishments of women’s creativity revolve around promising the soul-self “time to create” somewhere of in the foggy future. Or promising that when one has several days in a row […]
The Laws of Human Nature: Discover Your Dark Side
Recall Britney’s 2008 breakdown, Clinton’s sex affair and the behavior Nixon’s behavior in the White House before his resignation? “When we experience those moments when people reveal their dark side, we see something come over their face; their voice and body language of altered— almost as if another person is confronting us, the features of […]
Thoughts on: “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by Cal Newport
Could it be that more we focus on finding and following our passions the more discontent we become with our work? Cal Newport makes an argument that you should throw passion aside and get really good first, then passion will follow! —— So what makes for an rewarding career? Room for creativity, Impact and Control […]
Thoughts on The Expedition: A Love Story by Bea Uusma
Andrée’s Arctic balloon expedition In 1897, three Swedish scientists leaves for a polar expedition in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty years later they are found, by accident, dead on a deserted island. What happened to them and why did they die? The author, Bea Uusma, gets obsessed by the subject and spends decades trying to find […]
Thoughts on: “12 Rules for Life” by Jordan B. Peterson
Life is suffering. How do we deal with that?! We face it, we bare it. Hell is a bottomless pit and even how fucked up and unfair things are, we still can make it even worse. Let’s not do that! What if We get our act together and instead are prepared to face suffering when […]
Wanderlust: A History of Walking – Quick Book Review
Wanderlust tagline, A History of Walking, is a bit misleading because it feels very superficial as a history book. The book is better described as a collection of musings and digressions around the subject of walking in the context of cultural history. Walking and it’s influence on the world and human thought In Wanderlust: A […]
Thoughts on: “Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman
Sometimes you need something completely different. This was a palate cleanser book for me. —————————– Engineers are too logical at times, while people are not. As a game developer, you something hear people complaining: “They are playing it wrong!” when you first let people outside your project group play the game for the first time. […]
Thoughts on: “American Kingpin” by Nick Bilton
A failed physicist libertarian created the “Amazon of drugs” on the dark web, banking on the anonymity of Bitcoin and Thor (a web anonymous browser). His name was Ross Ulbricht and the site name was “the Silk Road”. —— He wanted to challenge the government led “war on drugs”, which he saw as a huge […]
Quick Review: Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
Turning Pro is about the struggle against Resistance that keeps us from pursuing our creative endeavors. It is this Resistance that makes us hate ourselves, and that breeds undirected discontent. Amateurs and Professionals The world is made up of amateurs and professionals. They are both dealing with the same material (the pain of being human […]
Quick Review: The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei
Instead of being dressed in traditional black Buddhist clothes, they wear white, the color of death. They carry a knife in their belt. This is to take their life if they fail in any element of their practice. Knife for self-disembowelment – belt for hanging. These buddhist monks and super athletes reaching for enlightenment in […]