by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 25, 2017 | Books, Culture, Humanities, Important People
While he has always been a recluse I am still saddened to learn we no longer have Robert M. Pirsig...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 9, 2017 | Books, Quotations, Memes, & Lessons From Life
I don’t know if this is from his book but I suspect it is. The quote is Miyamoto Musashi, the author of The Book of Five Rings a great book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy. Just the other week I found my old paperback copy of the book that I read traveling the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 19, 2017 | • Politics, Books, The Republicans
6 Books That Explain How the GOP Went Crazy Not long ago, another magazine asked me to recommend six books that explain something important about American politics. I chose six of my favorites that help elucidate the most important development of the last half-century...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 9, 2017 | Books, Brain Science
The first ten seconds of this video describes my memory skills almost exactly. I think I have heard of this techniques before in that it sounds like something I heard (and read) from Edward Debono and his books. I’ll give it a shot and also see what I might...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 29, 2016 | Books
One of my favorite books of all time and also one of my favorite pieces in the theatre is the musical Candide. I think the lesson it gives us about the folly of unbridled optimism is important especially so today. Candide was Right In Candide, the famous parody of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 29, 2016 | Books, Critical Thinking, Science, Science Denial
I learned via a Cami Ryan post on FaceBook that Tom Nichols who wrote the article “The Death Of Expertise” has a book coming out this winter called: “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters” …on this BIG HUGE PROBLEM our...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 6, 2016 | • Politics, Books, Donald Trump
Jennifer Senior writes a review of a strongly prophetic book published back in 1998, Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country”. In his book Rorty writes: [M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 2, 2016 | Books, Brain Science, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
I ABSOLUTLEY HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK. I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis’s books (Moneybag, The Big Short, The New New Thing) and if you haven’t seen me quoting and citing Daniel Kahneman’s and Amos Tversky’s work from Thinking Fast & Slow...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 14, 2016 | Books
This looks like it will be interesting reading so its on my list for this winter… This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century Amazon.com: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 31, 2016 | • Politics, Books, The 2016 Presidential Race
Jane Mayer the excellent investigative journalist and writer for the New Yorker often writing on on money in politics has a new book out Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right and here is a review from the NY...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 18, 2016 | Books
On how to learn from the lessons in any book of fiction but in this particular case from ONE. OF. THE. BEST. BOOKS. EVER. PERIOD. The Timeless Lessons we can Learn From Atticus Finch – Personal Growth What made Atticus so admired. He was trustworthy, principled,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 8, 2016 | Books
A great book list from The FarnamStreetBlog on recommended reading that answer the question: What books would you recommend someone read to improve their general knowledge of the world? What Books Would You Recommend Someone Read to Improve their General Knowledge of...
