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Book Review: What A City Is For

Reading Time: 10 minutes What A City Is For by Matt Hern is about one of the most important topics of our time: how to deal with housing people and making cities work for all the humans in them. Matt Hern is clearly an incredibly well read deep thinker on this topic with great ideas. And he has written […]

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General Commentary Personal and Professional Development Writing

Reading 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been reading way, way less during covid, but writing more, so maybe I’ll write an indulgent post just about that. In the meantime, most of the books I am reading this year are “kids” books (middle grade if you’re into the specifics). I have always loved middle grade novels. Classic favourites are Lloyd […]

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2019 Reading List

Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2019, I set a goal to read 3 books a month. I like to beat goals and so I read 42. This is the most that I can remember ever reading. Below is the list, most of them were great. Typically these lists link to amazon as a place for purchase. Last year I […]

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2020 Reading List

Reading Time: 7 minutes I’m not Obama, but if you’re looking for a read below are some ideas of what to pick up (and some thoughts about what to skip). A skimable read. Theme: Learning I read less than normal in 2020. It turns out that my commute by transit is my primary reading time (even more than before bed). […]