Category Archives: Books

The Adventures of Fritz the Dog

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Mark

The following stories are from the inexpensive Kindle book, High, Wide and Lonesome: Growing Up on the Colorado Frontier by Hal Borland. Fritz Catches a Jackrabbit Fritz was always with me while I was cricketing around on my crutches. He … Continue reading →

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Writing an Autobiography

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Clarence Darrow

One of my favorite free Kindle books is The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow, the great criminal defense lawyer best known as the hero in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925. The book is available from Project Gutenberg … Continue reading →

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Former President of Chile Publishes Memoirs

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Mark

Former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos recently published, The Southern Tiger: Chile’s Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future and asserted: A society that is built on neoliberal economic ideas will indeed foster GDP growth and innovation. But unless it … Continue reading →

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Timeless Thoughts on Business by Henry Ford

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Mark

I finished reading Henry Ford’s autobiography, written in 1922, free for Kindles and other e-readers. It’s better than most free books, and I quote a few favorite parts below about business and human nature that apply in his epoch and … Continue reading →

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Musings on the Steve Jobs Biography

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Mark

I’ve just finished “Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography” by Walter Isaacson, and I had planned on writing a review, but James Cridland wrote it for me: I’d heard some stories about Steve Jobs, but the stories I’d heard were nothing … Continue reading →

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Everything is Amazing, Especially Google

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Mark

My wife Mary is reading Cutting for Stone, a fabulous story I recommend where in the opening scene a nurse crossing the sea revives an incapacitated doctor of seasickness by placing him in a hammock. Mary asked me if the … Continue reading →

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Why Tech Investors Enjoy Kitesurfing More Than Golf

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Mark

If you are an entrepreneur seeking investors, you may have been given dated advice in business school to learn to golf, but CNet has another idea. Want a VC deal? Go fly a kiteboard: Valley VCs and entrepreneurs have long … Continue reading →

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The Paleo Caveman Diet of Tennis Star Novak Djokovic

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Mark

The Wall Street Journal reported that the reason Novak Djokovic has won 41 straight matches this year is that he is allergic to gluten and has removed it from his diet. The streak included 4 wins over Nadal and 3 … Continue reading →

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Bottom-Up Strategies in Business, Part 3

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Mark

While economist Tim Harford emphasizes the need to transform large organizations and Peter Sims offers ways to spark creativity, in part 3 of this bottom-up strategies series, Skeptic magazine editor and former bicycle racer Michael Shermer, author of The Mind … Continue reading →

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Bottom Up Strategies in Business, Part 2

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Mark

While venture capitalist Peter Sims in Part 1 of this bottom-up strategies series describes the iterative experimental process of discovering solutions to problems used by individuals such as comedian Chris Rock and architect Frank Gehry, economist Tim Harford, in Adapt: … Continue reading →

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