Book Reviews

Currently Reading:

Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov
The Flaw of Averages
, Sam Savage
Churchill’s Empire
, Richard Toye

Good For Gifts:

The Intellectual Devotional Series aims to present the gems you need to complete your education and speak intelligently. Each book is arranged for daily consumption with the same 7 major subject areas covered each week.
American History – covers Politics and Leadership, War and Peace, Rights and Reform, Business, Building America, Literature, and Arts
Modern Culture – Personalities, Literature, Music, Film, Ideas and Trends, Sports, and Pop
The Original – History, Literature, Visual Arts, Science, Music, Philosophy, and Religion

For Students:

The DeMYSTiFieD Series is a decent set of self teaching books that can help you cover a subject area fairly efficiently without getting bogged down in the minutia that often comes with academic tomes….
Probability Demystified
Statistics Demystified

Blueprint to a Billion – David Thomson
How to Measure Anything, Finding the Intangibles in Business – Douglas W. Hubbard
Venture Capital Due Diligence – Justin Camp
Asset Pricing – John Cochrane

General Reading:

Basic Economics, A Common Sense Guide to the Economy – Thomas Sowell
The Tipping Point
– Malcolm Gladwell
The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
Cradle to Cradle, Remaking the Way We Make Things – William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Creative Capital, Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital – Spencer E. Ante
Benjamin Franklin – Walter Isaacson