Posts filed under “Books”
“My Nuclear Life” by Chris Brownfield – a review
My Nuclear Life, written by Christopher Brownfield, was published recently. It chronicles his ~6 year career in the Navy, which primarily consisted of 3 years on the USS Hartford and 1 year in Iraq. I served on board the USS Hartford with Chris for about a year. This post is a review of his book [...]
As if on cue… (Checklists, round 2)
Yesterday, I wrote about an absolute must-read book: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right It has been shown in an extensive world-wide study that a simple checklist used in surgery cuts infection rates, cuts death rates, and saves costs. It does all of these by substantial margins, everywhere they’ve been implemented. But so [...]
The Checklist Manifesto – A hugely important book
Back in 2007 I read a fascinating article called “The Checklist” written by Dr. Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. Atul Gawande is a practicing surgeon, MacArthur Fellow, Rhodes Scholar and professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. The article described how a doctor convinced a group of hospitals in Michigan [...]
Hacking the GMAT
I was thinking recently that it was only about a year or so ago that I finally decided to apply for business school. Registering (and paying!) for the GMAT was a first big step into making it real. For those people that are reading this and have yet to take the GMAT, I have just [...]
Meditations – the start of a series
I picked up a book recently that’s been both a fascinating and inspirational read: “Meditations,” by Marcus Aurelius. (This book is the translation I actually own, which is a bit newer and has an unnecessarily pompous title.) I’ve found it a great little book to keep with my bag as I ride the Tube into [...]
A couple of recent reads
I wanted to write about two books that I’ve read recently. The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin, and Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court I bought “The Nine” a number of months ago as I browsed in a Washington DC bookshop. I’m fascinated [...]
Incredible bookstore!
A while ago I read about this absolutely INCREDIBLE new bookstore in the Netherlands. (H/T to John at Brand Autopsy.) An old (essentially unused) church in the heart of this city was turned into the most incredible bookstore you’ll likely ever see. The building hadn’t been used as a church for years. In more recent [...]