I’ll be the first to admit that I have not been keeping this blog up to date with the latest developments in my reading. But rest assured, we have been keeping our promise to ourselves, and as of today, we are on week 43 of 52 in our one-book-a-week challenge. …

It’s been 26 weeks since I decided I was going to try to read a book a week. I’m happy to say that, despite the odds, I’ve since completed 26 books in that time. Looking back, it all started after I casually mentioned I was thinking about getting into reading…

By Whom: Cathy O’Neil, PhD Mathematics, Harvard, Columnist for Bloomberg View. For Whom: Data Scientists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, Political Scientists, Sociologists, and Anyone With a Social Media Account Weapons of Math Destruction is the first time I’ve ever read a book that I’ve been assigned a excerpt from in class…

By Whom: A team of top professors from Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard whose specialties include psychology, behavioral economics, business and decision making. For Whom: Judges, Educators, Admissions Officers, Supervisors, Leaders, and Anyone Who Makes Important Judgements Noise may have the potential to be the next big breakthrough in the study…

For Whom: Behavioral Psychologists, Leaders, Critics, Judges, Sociologists, People Who Think By Whom: Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and underground up-and-coming non-fiction writer. Blink was written too early. Published in 2005, 16 years before the time of my writing, Gladwell’s second novel to his breakout-hit The Tipping Point introduces us to a…

For Whom: Introverts, Extroverts, Leaders, Parents, Teachers, Sociologists, Psychologists, Therapists, Young Adults. By Whom: Susan Cain, former Wall Street Business Consultant, leader of the Quiet Revolution movement. The premise of this book, wasn’t something I agreed with. Throughout my childhood and young adult lives, I had my own share of…

By Whom: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Professor of Environmental Biology at SUNY ESF, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. For Whom: Ecologists, Indigenous peoples, Climate Activists, Economists, Mothers, and any and all Citizens of Planet Earth. Braiding Sweetgrass was recommended to me by my cousin, Chin. Having been one of the…

By Whom: Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising at Stanford. For Whom: Young Adults. Out of fairness, I will first state that Your Turn did not have a pleasant entry into my life. The book was haphazardly handed to me in the passenger seat of our family…

For Whom: Innovators, inventors, problem-solvers, leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and anyone who likes to come up with something new. By Whom: Adam Grant, Professor of Psychology at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. After reading his 2021 book, Think Again, I felt Adam Grant had somehow hit the magical balance between the…