EQ Applied

I was just reading an article about Elon Musk’s supposedly controversial 1:20 AM memo to Tesla employees and I stumbled upon Justin Bariso’s book EQ Applied. Well, “stumbled” may be a misleading word choice as the article was written by him so a shameless self plug makes sense.

Regardless of the introduction, the book looks interesting and even delves into the “dark side” of emotional intelligence. I have no intention to utilize something so unethical, but just like the often-abused practice of NLP I’m quite curious to read up on it. As usual, if I grab the book I’ll do a short post marking my start date.

Have you read Justin’s book? I’d love to hear from folks in the comments who have thoughts about it, one way or another.

Manage Your Day-To-Day

I just finished this book and quite liked it. There were certainly some bits that were redundant for me, though overall it was a pleasurable and smooth read. And it brought me a lot of insights and provided me opportunities to examine myself. I’ll definitely be posting a reflection at some point, but for now I can definitely recommend this book to anyone who is attempting to be a professional creative (whether or not they’ve been struggling like I have).

Oh, and I’m immediately looking into the other books by the 99U crew now too!

Have you read this book (or others by 99U)? I’m curious to hear your first impressions in the comments.

Journal29

I’ve had this lingering around for a while (and even carted it fruitlessly with me to the US and back on a recent vacation) but I’ve finally gotten around to cracking it tonight. I’ll wait until I finish it to give my thoughts (though I’m already blazing through the first half dozen riddles) but I can already say that I’m definitely enjoying it as a late-night way to unwind.

Mortal Engines

I honestly can’t say what turned me on to this book. After reading Ready Player One (and being grossly disappointed by the film) I picked this one up and started diving in. I’m not too far but I can say while I love the concept the characters and writing tend to have a bit of a juvenile feeling to me. I’ll try to explain that better once I finish the book and write up my proper reflections.

Have you read any of Philip Reeve’s work? I be curious to hear what you think in the comments below!

The Secret Lives of Color

I saw this one in a wonderful shop called Builders Booksource in Berkeley. The cover caught me at first but once I realized what it was about I was sold. I absolutely would’ve loved to support the local establishment but due to the book’s size and weight I decided to grab a Kindle copy for now and get the physical copy back in Berlin somehow.