I’ve been slacking on posting my book reports as of late. The last two books that I read were The Tipping Point and Freakanomics. It’s been a while since I’ve finished the two so the material isn’t fresh in my mind. Consequently, all my sharp insights have been lost forever and all you’ll get is that both are good books, though I’d recommend TP over Freak.
For those that check-in via an RSS reader, I added a new widget on the right side of my blog for books that I have read and recommend (and in some cases, don’t recommend). Don’t mind the company that is generating the content (although I do like the company). I’m not looking to monetize my site, I just wanted a spiffy recommendation widget.
At bat right now is Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing, the story of YC and his outdoor clothing company, Patagonia. On deck is Raising the Bar, the story of Clif Bar. In the hole is Open by Andre Agassi. I’m kind of reading Let My People Go Surfing in parallel with Raising the Bar. The two books have a very similar theme: unconventional entrepreneurs that made it big on their own terms. I’m really enjoying the books thus far. Hopefully I won’t get lazy this time around about posting a report for these books; they’ve put some good ideas into my head and I want to capture them before I forget again.