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Mindset: Carol Dweck, My Perfectionism, and the Grade of Not Yet
Carol Dweck's Mindset found me when I was deep into building Golden Pines and quietly wondering whether I was the kind of person who could build it at all…
Home Economics: The Subject Everyone Called Soft
Mama taught Home Ec for decades in Catbalogan, and I filed it away as a quaint fact about her. It took a career in senior care to work out that she had been…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: The Book I Keep Growing Back Into
I first read Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People at twenty-five, as a young Financial Adviser who thought he was learning sales technique…
Line to Heaven: The First Song I Ever Learned, and What It Turned Out to Mean
My cousin Myla taught me three chords and a Filipino song from 1993. I had no idea it was written by a man who had just lost both his parents, or that I would…
Man's Search for Meaning: Viktor Frankl and the Last of the Human Freedoms
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is usually shelved with the self-help books, and it never quite belongs there. it was dictated in about nine days by…
How to Pay for Assisted Living in Michigan (Without Going Broke)
Families sit across from me and ask the same question first: won't Medicaid cover this? The honest answer is complicated, and no one tells them the truth…
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Art of Sitting Still
The third book in my series, and I planned it this way from the start. After two studies in intensity. Jobs and his focus, Musk and his fire. I wanted the…
Roundup: New York Took the AI Away From 600,000 Kids
New York pulled generative AI from 600,000 students through eighth grade. The only sector that lost jobs in August was the one building the machines. And a…
Roundup: When the Number Everyone Quotes and the Document Disagree
Nvidia's China quarter says the opposite of what the selloff said. Brussels turned the chatbot rules on while the coverage said it turned them off. Twenty AI…