Book 27: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual For Job-Hunters and Career-Changers What Color Is Your Parachute? is a “job-search” book I am reading for a course my university requires as part of my internship. Because I am completing assignments based on it, I won’t be posting any notes. So far, I cannot recommend it […]
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Overview The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts chronicles the life of Harvey Milk, the famous gay rights icon who won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, making him the first openly gay elected official in California. Milk was a relatively conservative Democrat who raged against “the machine” in populist fashion, demanded equal […]
Genetics And Healthcare
Genetics And The Future of Healthcare By Parker Sewell “Ninety-nine per cent of people don’t have an inkling about how fast this revolution is coming.” — Steve Fodor, president of Affymetrix” Originally published on April 25, 2016. I like trying to be healthy. If you know me well, you already know my morning routine. I wake up […]
Improving Alexa With Twitter Data
Recommendation After analyzing Twitter data, we recommend Amazon focus on improving the voice recognition capabilities of Alexa. This will boost Amazon sales through Alexa speakers and position Amazon as the market leader in the smart devices category. Planning and Execution Initially, we expected to find tweets about specific features that customers are unhappy with. We […]
The Way of the Shepherd: 7 Ancient Secrets to Managing Productive People
Overview The Way of the Shepherd is concise and offers good advice for managers looking to improve their leadership abilities. The author attended the McCombs School of Business, and a professor taught him about leadership while they tended to his sheep. A former teacher recommended this book to me. I will be brief. Lessons Know the […]
Dark Money
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis Overview In Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, investigative journalist Jane Mayer meticulously uncovers the political machine built […]
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Overview In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein explains the science behind climate change, the potential environmental catastrophes that will result from a changing climate, and how we can avert a planetary crisis by fundamentally changing our political and economic structure. A quick overview of climate change: it is real, anthropogenic (human-caused), and it has wreaked havoc […]
San Francisco Trivia
Overview A Short History of San Francisco, at a little over 100 pages, is indeed short. I too will be brief by listing facts that I found interesting (and that may be useful in a game of trivia). The overarching theme is that San Francisco is a beautiful, adaptable city like no other. I’ve lived […]
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Rank About Being Sick in America
Overview In How We Do Harm, Otis Webb Brawley, MD, the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Cancer Society, combines decades of anecdotes backed by empirical data to disprove the notion that the American healthcare system is the best in the world. Indeed, we aren’t even close. Most of the […]
The Master and His Emissary
Overview The Master and His Emissary by Dr. Iain McGilchrist is divided into two parts, much like our brains: the first focusing on recent developments in neuroscience research on our brain’s dividedness; the second, on how the West developed as a result of this dividedness. Research shows that the brain’s two hemispheres, while separate, independent, and […]