(Note, this post is copied from my website, Go there if you want to read the article with decent formatting) I'm sure you've had the embarrassing experience of asking someone who's already told you their

(Copied from my blog, At the end of July I read an audio-book of James Altucher's "Choose yourself: Be happy, make millions and live the dream." It consisted largely of little things you can

“The Millionaire Fastlane” by MJ Demarco is one of the best books I’ve read this year. The premise of the book is that most of us are taught to achieve wealth in an horrifyingly slow way. Get an education,

No one should be writing college textbooks. This is especially true in the sciences. This does not mean that colleges should stop using textbooks nor that students should stop reading. College textbooks

This is an excellent biography for those interested in the history of biology. It discusses the life of Louis Pasteur and his struggles that culminated in several major developments in the foundation of

The alchemists thought about elements very differently from us. They believed that there were four elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air, but unlike us, they saw the element more as a property associated

This book is pretty self-explanatory. It's about systems, they ways they can surprise us, and the proper way to think about them so they can work in our favour. Everything with an input and an output can

(Note, image borrowed from the Vonu Podcast) This is an interesting book, and is rapidly making Loompanics my favourite publisher, despite the fact that they went out of business in 2006. Vonu is a contraction

People don't often know the origin of Cybernetics, but it started as a branch of control and communication engineering. It's foundational revelation is the principle that, when you reach for a pencil,

This, as far as I am aware, is the most complete of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies. His previous ones were mainly about his time in slavery. Frederick Doulgass has lived many lives. He was born on

Monday 08/28/17. I made zero progress so far on the lab construction, but I made a small amount of progress on my essay, and I read four short articles. One of the things holding me back was I started

Get the Book Here The primary theme of this book is the individual's self image, the ways in which the self-image, and the natural tendency to conform to the self-image, either creates limiting beliefs

Experments on Air and Radioactive Substances By Joseph Priestly and Marie Curie, Respectively This review is special, as it is of two great works instead of one. The former is "Observations and

A friend at the Minneapolis DiyBio meetup group suggested I read this book, and now I see why. This book fills very special niche within the current ecosystem of texts on genetics and biotechnology. "The

Monday 08/14/17. The goals that I had set for the past week were: Read one book and write one book review Finish the first draft of my August Essay: "Why I am an Anarchist." Finish building the

The autobiography of Andrew Carnegie tells one story about Carnegie's life after another starting from childhood and ending with his meeting of the German Emperor. Some interesting things I learned about

I first heard about this book when reading "The first 20 hours" by the same author (also a very good book). The main premise of "The Personal MBA" is that any individual could get the

Books are important tools for the mind, and since I was planning on reading a large number of books this year (and after a couple of recommendations) I decided I would start with this one, in the hopes

Dear visitor, I wish to share with you the nature of this blog, what you will find here, it's plans, and the schedule for it coming up. It was originally intended to be used as a tool to boost my career,