Fun fact: the term "quarantine" comes from an effort to protect Venice from plague epidemics in the 14th Century. Ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days "quaranta" before landing. I'm normally a very laid back, non-chalant guy. Unflabbable, some may say. Almost nothing can rile me …
Daily Essentials: The Books I Read Every Day No Matter What
Books offer so much valuable information, it's easy to be inspired by the lastest book you finished and go on to be a beast for the next three weeks. But then it starts to ware off. You pick up a new novel and forget all about the "you" that you were during your last reading …
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The Weekly Rapport: Disney, Extinctions, and Gingers
Hi All, Welcome to the Weekly Rapport. A weekly guide of things I’m reading, doing, and experimenting with. Enjoy. Quote of the Week Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain What I'm Reading The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger This was a really …
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The Weekly Rapport: Range, Meaning, and Polaroid Cameras
Hi All, Welcome to the Weekly Rapport. A weekly guide of things I’m reading, doing, and experimenting with. Enjoy. Quote of the Week The way you do anything is the way you do everything. - Tom Waits What I'm Reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein You can pretty much figure …
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Year in Review: My 2019 Reading List
I always wanted to keep a full log and review of every book I've ever read. It may be too late in my life to go back and chronicle all the books I read since I was 10 years old, but I at least have a good established base of this blog and my Instagram …
The Weekly Rapport: Sleep, Cravings, and New Years Challenges
Hi All, Welcome to the Weekly Rapport. A weekly guide of things I’m reading, doing, and experimenting with. Enjoy. What I'm Reading Wired to Eat - Robb Wolf It's actually ridiculous when you think about how eating healthy is treated in our society. Have you ever tried eating healthy in an office? Every nosey coworker …
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I’m Never Running Again
Note: I haven't posted on here since August. There's a reason for that... I recently completed a 10-week writing course at NYU and wanted to focus my writing efforts solely on the class. I spent a lot of time reading and learning and I really, really enjoyed it. Now that I've learned, improved, and adopted …
The Weekly Rapport #30: Bush, Comedy, and Being ‘Woke’
It's taken me a full year and a half to get to thirty Weekly Rapports. I can't do the math right now, but I don't think that's very consistent... What I'm Reading I already posted it in my last article but The Rational Optimist is still taking me a while... Next up is Decision Points by former …
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What I’m Reading Lately
Here are some of the latest books I've read in the last few weeks or so, along with my thoughts on each of them. Enjoy. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami Billions director and writer Brian Koppelman called this book "the single best distillation of the kind of focus, commitment, …
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
I read Tribe of Mentors over year ago when it came out. The chapters offer so many unique gems about how to live your life that I decided to go through it once again this past week. If you haven't heard of it, it's written by Tim Ferriss of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast and Four …