Book Review: “The Waste Books” by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Merchants have a waste-book (Sudelbuch, Klitterbuch, I think it is in German) in which they enter from day to day everything they have bought and sold, all mixed up together in disorder; from this it is transferred to the journal, in which everything is arranged more systematically;  and finally it arrives in the ledger...This deserves … Continue reading Book Review: “The Waste Books” by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Book Review & Summary: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

Review: Recommended. There is a lot of sound advice for life and business in this book. While the war stories do help to illustrate the points being conveyed, I thought that they distracted from the principles being discussed. Overall, worth your time. Summary: The central idea is to own everything that happens to you, i.e., … Continue reading Book Review & Summary: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink