A continually evolving place to share blogs, articles, essays and books about coaching, complexity and contentment.
Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun by Bode Miller | More fun than any reader should expect any professional athlete’s autobiography to be – even comes with a chapter on how to make maple syrup
Celebrating Silence by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | An exploration of the Art of Living Foundation’s governing philosophy Being a simple, happy person sounds silly only so long as it sounds impossible
Justine by Lawrence Durrell | About as gorgeously written as literary fiction gets
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | The best book to start learning about complex adaptive systems (cas)
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition: Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. by Daniel Markovits | An interesting book excerpt published in the September 2019 issue of The Atlantic
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand | A biography of buildings that shows building-learning preceded machine-learning by centuries (so far) – and a giant hidden cost of running an Airbnb
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows | A delightful book that ends (probably due to postmortem editing) still more delightfully than it begins
The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice by Václav Havel | A mediator’s primer, a book about transcending what is implacable
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney | A book that changes every art museum thenceforth (rumor is, it can induce a yearlong exploration of the science of optics, too)
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay by John Gimlette | Just in case you never make it to Paraguay
Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan | A life-navigation manual that resonated more in the fourth year after I read it than it did in the first
The Reckoning by David Halberstam | A masterpiece in showing what happens when a complex adaptive system stops adapting
Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy by Sadhguru | Every good thing people say about the man – a demystified approach to mysticism, a great place to start