What I Am Reading – Boundless
For the record, this book is more of an encyclopedia than a single subject book. This is an excellent resource for a lot of areas around performance and health. Personally, I struggle with these types of books. My general feeling is that these types of books come out as a watered-down version of really high […]
What I’m Reading – The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
This is an engineering book. The idea of thinking like an engineer is built upon learning how an engineer thinks. A key excerpt from this book was computer programming. Information theory is a central theme for computer science. The idea is that there is a logical sequence in which computer programs communicate. What I found […]
What I’m Reading – Great Mental Models Vol III
I’m a big fan of this series. This is Volume 3, and I can say that Volume 1 & 2 were fantastic. Volume three was a deep dive into different mathematical models which was especially fun for me. My first degree is a bachelors in mathematics. A lot of these models were fun to look […]
What I’m Reading – 12 Rules for Life
There is a lot out there on Jordan Peterson and his stance on specific issues. I have a completely indifferent stance on him. I am personally concerned with the general message from his writings. If there is someone out there who takes exception to me reviewing his book, I sincerely hope it is coming from […]
What I’m Reading – Muscle Hypertrophy
I’ll start off by saying I have really liked Brad’s work for sometime now. I present on hypertrophy a lot, and I cite a lot of Brad’s work. Brad has an immense amount of published work outside of this book: Brad Schoenfeld Hypertrophy. I have looked at and cited so many of these articles that […]
What I’m Reading : Measure What Matters
The summary statement from this book is that businesses and teams should be focussed on ‘OKR’s (Objectives and Key Results) over bullet point goals or check marks. Goal setting for any institution should be utilized by every team or business. The question therefore becomes on how to effectively do that. In my opinion, I felt […]
What I’m Reading – Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
First off, I want to explain the constant business books as of late. It is just where my focus has been recently. To me, there is a functional need to read – it is supposed to help develop a skill or an attribute that is required for your job or life. It is why I […]
What I’m Reading – Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products
Nir Eyal defined habits as “behaviors done with little or no conscious thought.” This is the central theme to Hooked – can we do something frequently enough without thought to form a habit loop that is automatic? The now famous series of lectures Nir Eyal has done on how to utilize technology to create habit […]
What I’m Reading – The Goal
This is intended to be a business book, but in reality, it is applicable to everything we do in S&C in some way. As we break down our purpose as an industry, we need to understand what the actual point of what we’re doing is in the first place. Having a true intent is the […]
What I Am Reading – The Art & Science of Teaching Movement
I have seen Nick talk several times about cueing which always has been impressive. I held off on making the commitment to this book for a while now. I guess it’s like seeing the movie first and hearing the book is even better. This leads to not wanting to make the commitment, due to knowing […]