After a somewhat anemic week of military philosophy and science, I was about ready to call it quits. However, I was visited by an excellent tome that knocked me out of my socks. This one is one part

Written by a man who never went to war, this is a treatise on the nature of war and the logistics thereof. I'll be honest and say that the author does an excellent job of presenting his knowledge as if

To be quite honest, I had higher hopes for the core text of Taoism. Although it speaks of "The Way" in a poetic and frankly very beautiful prose and lyric, it wasn't nearly as moving as the tome

A somewhat short treatise on the way of the warrior is always welcome, particularly when coming from a guy who's essentially Alexander in one-on-one combat. Musashi slew his first man at 16, and did not

It is exceedingly difficult to write a great big book of war. No book I've read on the subject comes even close to approximating the type of mentality that is necessary for war-fighting. As such I won't

Maurice de Saxe is one of those people who would probably be killed very quickly, were they to appear in today's time. The intro to the book explains his biography, which reads like the mythical life of

As I'm interested in all aspects of warfare, this week will see me reading some of the least-known books of the genre as everybody and their hamster's cousin has read the basics like 42 rules and the Art

In many ways a more profound tome than Lean Startup, this one examines the role that ego and leadership play in the process of iterating and adapting to a more successful business model. Notable is the

One of my greatest inspirations and, dare I say, idols, is the author of this book and founder of PayPal. It continues to amaze me how there can exist people who give up on life when there are such exemplars

The difference between a business model and a product is very important in my mind right now, as I'm growing more capable in designing products, but I'm unable to understand the monetisation system

No, this book is not an autobiographical novel about a self-starting entrepreneur in the favelas of Rio, as much as I'd like to read something like that. Even though I was recommended this book by somebody

Knowing that you're doing something wrong is very easy - admitting that you're doing so is somewhat harder, taking ownership is much harder and actually fixing it is impossibly demanding for most people.

Point and laugh if you must, but I haven't yet gotten around to this book despite the myriad recommendations that I have received. As a stand-alone read, it garners mention but is not as instrumental as

I've been putting this off way too long. The various books written on the subject of entrepreneurship that everybody's recommended to me and I've always pretended to have read. No more. It's time for my

There's pretty much only one book you have to read on the subject of ports and maritime shipping. It's a massive book that will take you several days to get through even on a sped-up audio listen-through,

All matters of shipping on the sea (not so much on land) are examined in this massive tome of all things maritime. If you wanted to know how ships get balanced for their cargo and why invasive species

Yes, anybody who knows me and even most of those who do not could have seen this from a mile away - pirates. Although it sounds like a super sexy combat-laden escapade of maritime daring-do, it's nothing

Whenever somebody begins to spit poison regarding the evils of capitalism and international trade - there is one thing that I can always point to as simultaneously the greatest debunking and bolstering

Written by the author of "99% of everything", this book does a better job of going into the details of the shipping industry and the frightfully appalling conditions that seafarers live in. It

An error on my end caused me to go into this book, but I'm glad I did. I was hoping for it to relate to shipping, but it only tangentially refers to that field. It primarily examines the economics and