As you age, you’ll find new lessons in books you enjoyed at different times in your life. As a child, you’ll see the underlying message behind books, but as someone in retirement, you’ll interpret that message differently. Try it for yourself and read these twelve books that mean something different at each stage in your […]
Reading is an enjoyable activity, yet time-consuming too. It is easy to fall out of the habit if you don’t have a set reading routine, be it listening to an audiobook on your commute or reading in the evening to wind down from the day. If you’ve fallen out of the habit of reading, you’ll […]
Lebanese-American scholar, Nassim Taleb, has spent years studying problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. From 2001 to 2018, he published five books that he bundled into one titled Incerto. The highly recommended group of works discuss managing risk and uncertainty, something that all professionals and students alike could benefit from. The series begins with Antifragile that explains the category […]
A good book series is one where the first book concludes well but leaves room for the reader to want to discover what else happens to the characters. Does the main character bring justice in an unjust world, travel the seven seas, and still have time to fall in love? Think of some of the […]
Medical schools demand a lot of their students. In addition to classes, research papers, and exams, there is hands-on experience required to graduate. Medical students who somehow make time to maintain a blog will write about the same thing. They make a point to note that they usually have too much going on and not […]
Years after the most celebrated authors of all time passed, came the discovery of evidence of more of their writings. Their manuscripts, some published but now lost forever, have scholars learning more about the author themselves as well as that period of time. Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow […]
