Froth on the Daydream & Other Books That Melted My Mind

Ram Dass & The Big Ice Cream Cone in the Sky

If you see a copy of Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now in a bookshop, pick it up; or…

O Pequeno Príncipe (The Little Prince)

O livro de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry é uma obra fantástica. Saint-Exupéry foi um desenhista…

The Politics of Destroying Language

At this moment, I the writer and you the reader are partaking in a banquet of language that we…

When I Eat Books

I was at grandma’s house when I first learned to read quietly. In my mind. I was on the blue loveseat in my aunt’s room and I…

Scientific Advertising

📚 by Claude Hopkins

At least three or four friends recommended this book (several times) before I added it to my reading list. Even then I assumed I would never get around to reading it. I usually trusted these friends. They’ve never steered me…

Ignorance: How It Drives Science

📚 by Stuart Firestein

Science isn’t always a race to the next breakthrough. Ideally, it’s finding answers that reveal more questions. Learning is exposing yourself to more and more ignorance. Accepting your own ignorance and…

Making big decisions

its not about choosing the defaults

Redesigning 1984

I first read George Orwell’s 1984 in 2007. Ironically, I read 1984 in Beijing to kill time because Gmail was censored and I…

Hey You, Quit Lying to Yourself.

I don’t read self help books. I loathe them. I believe that you have to actually talk to people…