Six Books to Help You Quit Your Job: What To Read Before You Quit
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For three and a half years, I worked for a boss who had zero experience in the department he managed. He was the "good old boy" type who got ahead by being a white male who kissed his boss's ass (and, likely, other parts). He had
Book Review: Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas
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Ah, the coming of age adventure memoir - one of my favorite genres. Ken Illgunas's book Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom [https://amzn.to/2ECamTA] shares plot points with others in the genre: boy becomes disillusioned with modern American society and disdains
Book Review: The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
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Bananas, it turns out, don't grow on trees, but instead are large herbs and are best classified as berries. The plant, which is actually a tall grass, can grow - from a cutting and not a seed - twenty inches in twenty-four hours. The banana we eat in
Short Story Review: Notes on a Suicide by Rana Dasgupta
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Scrolling through my Facebook feed, I feel poisoned: the figments are both overwrought and vacant. I want to know what my friends are feeling but would prefer a conversation over a café crème or good bottle of wine. Why status updates and short videos instead of living in the moment?
Book Review: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway wrote and rewrote A Moveable Feast [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143918271X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=143918271X&linkId=078e8ace01d22ee523b7f08d126eae39] , the memoir of his impoverished years as a young writer in
Book review: The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
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The Internet Will Eat the World I installed my first computer in my bedroom when I was nine. What a machine! This box ran Windows 95, which meant I could play games, and it had a modem, which meant I could email my best friend across the country and browse
Book Review: Luck Favors the Prepared by Nathaniel Barber
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In the first sentence of what turns into an uncommonly poignant and funny book, Nathaniel Barber dives headlong into a familiar topic: the interview for the job your don't want. We've all been there, sitting across from our future boss, being talked out of a position
I Broke My Own Rule: Book Review for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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This week I realized two things: 1) there are two people in this world I will assemble furniture for; and 2) there are two people in this world who could convince me to read young adult fiction. They happen to be the same two people: my stepdaughters. Both of their