Get Prometheus Rising. I read Robert Anton Wilson’s Prometheus Rising when I was in my early 20s, and it has stuck with me ...

I like many grew up on Calvin and Hobbes. I don’t know if there’s a comic, book, film, or any other piece of art that better ...

“Just keep livin’” — mentioned by Matthew McConaughey in his first book is an internal engine that was always in me to keep ...

Every system exhibits biases, and tendencies toward some states. Water flowing through a pipe, the vibrations of a machine, the relationships in a meadow, your lymph nodes, are all systems. Over time, ...

Unlike a lot of management lore, it is aimed at the project level (where I want to be) rather than the large organization. The message in the book touts productivity, without ever mentioning the ...

Alien Invasion in my Backyard, the first in the EMU Club series, is a fun and ridiculous (in just the right way) story of the ...

Gordon Tebo is a singer/songwriter living outside of Chicago. He recently released his new album, “Exotic Fears”, which ...

The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. Once every 6 weeks, we’ll send out a throwback issue of evergreen recommendations focused on one ...

P.T. Barnum was 70 years old when he turned his most popular lecture into this book in 1880. By then, he’d already built America’s most famous museum in New York, introduced General Tom Thumb to ...

A New Stopover Program for Munich. I’ve written before about the advantages of an airline stopover program to get two vacations on one trip, but now there’s a new one to add t ...

In one of the strangest government decrees we’ve seen yet, Bali is enforcing a policy that any kind of commercial activity done on their island requires a work visa. That means any kind of ...