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My Highlights of Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq

Read More on Amazon What a sad book. Serotonin makes Dostoyevsky seem like Friday night standup comedy. Despite the sadness, the themes that Houellebecq covers are crucial. Our atomization, “Paris: like all cities, Paris was made to generate loneliness,”. Our sexual liberation, which in theory should have opened us boundless joy, yet it brings us […]

in Book highlights | May 3, 2022 | 1,028 Words | Comment

Highlights from Our Culture, What’s Left of It

  Read More on Amazon Our Culture, What’s Left of It poses a controversial question. What if liberal policies are harming us? Theodore Dalrymple is the psychiatrist of the British underclass. After spending years treating drug addicts, convicts, victims, and perpetrators of abuse he concluded that the main cause of their behavior is culture.  The […]

in Book highlights | February 18, 2022 | 3,984 Words | Comment

Highlights from The Richest Man in Babylon

Read to learn the fundamentals of building wealth.  Read More on Amazon The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason is one of my favorite personal finance books. An American hustler in his 50s, who looks like Jason Momoa from Texas, recommended it to me when I was 18. The book opened my eyes […]

in Book highlights | January 8, 2022 | 4,504 Words | Comment

Highlights from The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Read to learn how a shy, timid, weak, and sickly child went to become the most powerful man in the world.  How can a book capture a man who is larger than life? You can write thousands of pages and there will be something missing. But The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris comes […]

in Book highlights | October 4, 2021 | 4,979 Words | Comment

Highlights from the Book of Proverbs

Proverbs is one of my favorite books of the Holy Bible. It is filled with Godly wisdom that will improve your life.  The “original self-improvement” is nourishing and useful for believers and non-believers alike.  The Lessons in Proverbs contain the Biblical staples of wisdom, discipline, moderation, long-term thinking, hard work, and abstinence.  Memorable verses from […]

in Book highlights | September 14, 2021 | 6,643 Words | Comment

Highlights from On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Read More on Amazon “Yes! You and I, Sal, we dig the whole world with a car like this because, man, the road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain’t nowhere else it can go – right?” I had a hard time finishing On The Road. It’s not a particularly strenuous or long read, […]

in Book highlights | September 3, 2021 | 1,013 Words | 1 Comment

Highlights from Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“I can do anything but not everything.” Read More on Amazon Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less shows you how to unburden your life by removing the unnecessary.  Read this book if you find yourself doing too many things at the same time and not making substantial progress in any direction. Been there, done(!) that. […]

in Book highlights | August 22, 2021 | 1,869 Words | 2 Comments

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