Of all things Geek. I am…
Despite all of the incredible television advertising catchphrases that still live in my millennial head, one still has a stranglehold: “The incredible, edible egg.”
Yes, yes, television was supposed to rot my generation’s collective brain, but it seems downright healthy compared to the subsequent generations’ digital diets. But that’s not the health I want to dive into.
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I’ve been reading about Stranger in a Strange Land for a few years now. I don’t mean I’ve been reading in-depth breakdowns or anything, but the novel has been referenced on more than a few occasions throughout the last few years in books or other media I’ve been consuming.
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Now you may be asking, what’s an Otaku? Merriam-Webster defines an Otaku as “a person having an intense or obsessive interest especially in the fields of anime and manga.” In high school, and many years beyond, I was very much a self-described Otaku.
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Five-Point Play is an uncommon book about leadership in that it doesn’t preach. It is written by Duke Blue Devils Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) with Donald T. Phillips, and it documents the 2000-01 season from the preseason to the 2001 National Championship.
The premier philosophy featured in this book is Coach K’s “The Fist.” The Fist has five points, thus the title of the book: Communication, Trust, Care, Collective Responsibility, and Pride.
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In order to discuss paring down one’s own personal library of books, it is important to recognize two important facts, especially for the avid reader. One: there is no such thing as a complete library; and two: having too many books is a binary experience. You either have too few or too many. There is no in between.
So with that in mind, why am I writing a post about purging books? Because I found that I had too many, and so I went searching for ways to decide how to shrink my personal library.
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