Author: John

How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

As the book warns, it could get worse.

Peril
by Bob Woodward & Robert Costa

Disappointed doesn’t quite describe how I feel about this book.

The Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner

The monopoly business model allowed the free reign of creative minds to do what interested them in an environment where no ideas were bad ideas.

Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell

There is no integrative presentation or analysis here, at least none that I could detect.

80

  At my age the most important force in my life is aging, and each night I declare a victory in the war against age. At age 50 my doctor told me our goal was to make sure I was healthy at age 80. I just laughed because I never…