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An asteroid, Perses, is on a collision course with earth. It’s the size of Texas, and you’ve been hearing about it and seeing it coming for many months. Survival is doubtful at best, and humanity is coping by collapsing – as you would expect.
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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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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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It’s easy to say there were 10 things I learned or was excited to read within The Creative Act. Truthfully, I made 28 notes reading it cover to cover. Perhaps at another time I would have made 18 or 48. This book is unique.
While it is, in fact, a linear read about the inspirations, actions, energies, meditations, collaborations, and many other pieces that form the act of creating art, I kept getting the feeling that this stuff could just be picked up at any time and any piece might hit you as important.
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I don’t know why I have this book. But more curiously, I don’t know why I knew some of the stories within it.
You see, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell is basically stories and reformatted blog posts from author Tucker Max’s blog. I didn’t read Max’s blog, I didn’t know who he is, and yet, I knew the stories. Perhaps they were “viral” before we were really using that term.
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