Essentialism
What is essential? It’s an age old question, but all the more important in our hurried world. Obviously the answer is different for each person — in my world my wife and family only take…
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The Wright Brothers
Can we all just admit David McCullough is the greatest living historian? His books combine the scholarly work of a brilliant academic with the comfortable style of a story your grandparents would tell. His latest,…
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The Road to Character
The recently released book The Road to Character by David Brooks is my first “must read” recommendation of the year. The book looks at a variety of men and women, all leaders and inspirational thinkers, who built a…
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Scary Close, by Donald Miller
For over a decade Donald Miller has been exploring his inner thoughts about the complexities of faith in a culture seeking to package our spiritual journey into something neat and tidy. His latest book Scary Close: Dropping…
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Keeping Hope Alive, by Lewis Smedes
I have a lot of hope in the future. It’s what keeps me going through all the negativity pervading our lives. People are down on everything these days — perhaps because they watch too much cable news…
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Bold, by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis
Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis wrote Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World as the follow up book to their previous work, Abundance. Where Abundance tell us what the future might look…
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Boys Adrift
When I wrote about the most influential 25 books of my life, Reviving Ophelia was a no brainer to add. It shaped my understanding of what girls deal with in our society, which helped me…
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The Accidental Superpower, by Peter Zeihan
Gloom and doom are an always present part of the American psyche. For two hundred years we’ve convinced ourselves the best days are behind us. It’s easy to find books that feed this anxiety. That’s…
