Category: Book Review / Insight

I’ve long been fascinated by the 10,000 hours rule, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers. In it, he posits that it takes 10,000 hours of intensive practice to become a master of a...

What do you get when you take two Stanford Business School profs, toss in some academic research, and sprinkle on a bit of improv training? You get a book that looks a lot like Humor,...

Earlier I shared the top ten most-read posts of 2021. Today, my top ten reads get their time in the sun. Again this year, I’ve stuck with my minimum :30 per day. I find that...

At my core, I’m a guy who likes to work smarter, not harder. I enjoy maximizing my schedule and mapping my ideal week. I believe that checklists are one of God’s greatest gifts to us....

Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game tackles the topic of … well … infinite games (no need to get crazy-creative with titles, am I right)? Sinek sets up the categories of finite games – those with...

The next time you’re at an evangelical dinner party, you can bring things to a standstill – I’m talkin’ record scratch on the Jars of Clay 1995 Flood LP – by just clearing your throat,...

My summer reading list included Jen Wilkin’s Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands, and I’m so glad it did. Jen’s exploration of the Ten Commandments was both refreshing and...

Tod Bolsinger’s Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory is a book that many a leader has tackled over the last few years (at least according to my social media feed and “best books...

Earlier this week I pitched ten books that I think you should read this summer. But I don’t just want to tell you what to read. I want to share what I hope to tackle...

It’s that time again, campers: the time of the year when nerds get giddy with excitement over everyone’s recommended reading lists. I have ten for you, picked out of what I’ve read over the last...