📚 Books
📚 If you are in The Reader’s Republic - keep a look out for the invite to the next meeting and a short email taking you to the notes from the day - with links to the recording and the list of books - with links - we talked about.
I promise that I didn’t plan it this way but the last three meetings of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic differ in length by only 14 seconds.
📚 Coming to the end of my Rebus … so got another ‘tome’ lined up. It is nearly 1,000 pages long - which I think is a great reason for reading it digitally - but I won’t.
📚Great Meeting Of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
‘Time Flies’
🎶 a track on ‘The Innocent'
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📚 the title of the bio of Porcupine Tree.
16th in the series of #MBMay
Photo; Book Cover. Illustration by Lasse Holle?
Caveat: NONE of the photos in this series are mine, but when I know who to credit, I do.
📚 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic Invite was just sent out for May 15th/16th - let me know if you didn’t receive it.
📚 I just added 🔗 A Good Hard Kick in the Ass by Rob Adams to my ‘want to read list’ … anybody else tried it?
📚 Just looking out ahead and realized that I still need to come up with my two books for the next meeting of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic.
Just discovered 🔗 Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis 📚 and added it to my ‘want to read’ bookshelf. The summaries I have read put it right in the middle of my 🔗 People First thinking
📚The Cellist by Daniel Silva
Just finished reading: 🔗 The Cellist by Daniel Silva 📚
Definitely a good read … kept me turning the pages … though I take issue with him being described as ‘the new LeCarre … or am I just being overly defensive of one of my ‘4 Johns’.
That all said, the most amazing thing about this book is that following Jan 6th 2021 he revised the book top to bottom in 6 weeks. Not that this should cause you to read it … but absolutely testament to his desire for realism in his books.
This was my first Silva … but it won’t be my last.
The Four Natural Forces Applied To Business
I used the 4 natural forces model in my 📚recent book as an analogy for the 4 forces of humanity.
And then I read that 🔗 Fermilab has found a discrepancy with the mass of the W boson.
“The current 'standard model' of particle physics describes four fundamental forces. Three of those — electromagnetism, gravity and the strong nuclear force — push or pull things, broadly speaking. The fourth force — the weak nuclear force — doesn't really push or pull anything. Instead it makes one type of particle transform into another type of particle. In doing so we get the force responsible for radiation, and it's the force that drives nuclear fusion in the sun. So it's quite important.”
I’ll say it’s important. Now I will have to revisit some of the thinking in the book!
📚My Goodness Time Flies …
🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is upon us again!
Watch out for the deets in your email and calendars ….
Notes Reminding Us About Notes
Two short posts that arrived almost back to back in the multivarious reading apps that seem to be multiplying on my iPad.
The first came from Derek Silvers about why we should write plain text files.
The ‘shouldness’of that instruction cant be more emphasised. All that he says I do know, but it’s good to be reminded. But, even then it still doesn’t stop me from writing a lot of stuff in a couple of the most proprietary formats out there .. Apple’s ‘Pages’ and ‘Keynote’.
YES Keynote … it isn’t just for presentations, I use it to create simple graphics and structured workbooks.
The second was Note-taking became a full-time job, so I stopped
Last year out of nowhere, I became aware and interested in Obsidian. I learnt about Zeitelkasten. I discovered that Obsidian was just the latest application that promised to be my salvation.
I haven’t stopped using it - but boy did that post resonate!
Important to 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
Finished reading: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 📚🎶🎼🎵
A proper review needed, but I tend not to do those … but someone definitely at the intersection of two personal passions - People First and M U S I C
📚Three Interesting ‘Writer’ Links
By the way - Gallagher’s YouTube Channel - 58Keys is worth checking out. Nice to see that I subscribed when his count was in the hundreds - and now it is over 2 1/2 thousand.
📚Publishing shenanigans - he was caught - but why did he do it?
… enquiring minds need to know - and the article doesn’t really answer the question.
Just started another Christmas present …
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl 📚
Of course, the 🎶🎵🎼 tags are also relevant!
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Just finished reading: The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman 📚
… and what a delight it was.
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Just Finished Reading: Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci 📚
I don’t write many book reviews but for this one I will make an exception - with a good reason - but not yet.
I will be back. (If you will pardon a spot of ‘Arny Channeling’ !!!)