Executives Behaving Badly, part two.

I did a binge on books about bad behaviour in business and it all started with this one.

Could be called "Fear II: Civil Disservice". Woodward's narrative is more detail on a now-well-known picture. Lewis, who has my vote for current master of narrative nonfiction, does him one better - revealing the near-destruction of critical parts of the US civil service due to ignorance and disinterest…

Interviewing Ryan Holiday at Rakuten Optimism meant brushing up on my Stoics along with his more modern, but I daresay no more or less practical, books on growth hacking, marketing and media. (I actually read this in the lovely Penguin Great Ideas paper edition. Tell no one.)

I read chapter one in ebook. Okay. Listened to the rest in audio and it was magic. As a lover of neighbourhoods, families, and the streamlined beauty of meat slicers, this one hit me hard.

The last of my English-Civil-War-Glorious-Revolution binge. It's good to remember that this isn't the first time that the UK has said "let's jump off a cliff and see what happens." Although it's been a while...

I spent enough time working in restaurants, front and back of house, to pick up the rough basics of a wine education: varietals, tasting notes, food pairing. But I knew enough to know there was a lot I didn't know. Wine knowledge is hidden knowledge, mysterious, acquired at great expense…

A future that is grounded in the universal experience of refugees, the dispossessed who become terrorists, the violent grind of civil war. Except it's America… 

Netflix is, to me, the most interesting petrie dish in the study of workplace culture. Somewhere between Amazon's Darwinianism and Zappos' anarchic self-organization, there is Netflix…

James and I once spoke at the same conference, If:Book in Italy, in I'm guessing about 2011. I was struck by this quiet, intense, supremely thoughtful guy who

If you were ever under the staggering misapprehension that women were not serious political movers in the 1600s and 1700s, this book will fix you right up…