Book 7 of 24: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
March 29, 2018Book 7 of 24 of A Year of Books. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Read: March 2018. The thing that drives me into reading these types of books is obsession. Obsession of the writer, the scientists, and the discoverers all throughout our time who studied every nook and cranny of the universe they can possibly find. In the context of the size of everything, it isn’t much. But in relation to our tiny human minds… It’s a lot more than we can ever know or remember or even understand. While there are a million interesting/amazing/funny things in…
Book 6 of 24: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Book 6 of 24 of A Year of Books. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Listened to: March 2018. I signed up to Audible’s 30-day free trial to listen to the Ready Player One audiobook. Normally I like actual reading more.…
Book 5 of 24: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Book 5 of 24 of A Year of Books. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. Read: March 2018. Last night – which is a Friday night – I spent after hours talking about Haruki Murakami’s…
Book 4 of 24: Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Book 4 of 24 of A Year of Books. Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson. Read: February 2018. I told my version – faithful and invented, accurate and misremembered, shuffled in time. I told myself as…
Book 3 of 24: You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
Book 3 of 24 of A Year of Books. You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto. Read: February 2018. We should instead seek to inspire the phenomenon of individual intelligence. “What is a person?” If I knew the answer to that,…
VIDEO: Vevey and Bern, Switzerland with The Favrels
Vevey, Switzerland and Bern, Switzerland. 2016. Staying in The Favrel home in the beginning of my first trip to Europe. More travel videos at youtube.com/vidasioson.
Book 2 of 24: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Book 2 of 24 of A Year of Books. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Read: January 2018. Everyday, our beagle, Sky would start barking at 5:00am for my dad to take him out to pee. On the weekends,…
Book 1 of 24: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Book 1 of 24 of A Year of Books: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Read: January 2018. I love long haul business flights. Being alone forces me to spend time with myself without much disturbance. In the plane I…
A Year of Books: Ripping Off Mark Z’s Challenge
By now you probably think I’m a total rip off of other people’s ideas. And I am, without doubt or shame. After creating my Life Goals Template, which was inspired by Chris Guillebeau, one of my major goals for the…
My Life Goals Template
At the end of every work year, we usually have an annual review – mostly to answer questions such as: Did we meet our goals? What went well? What didn’t? It’s basic, but answering these simple questions helps a lot…
This Pain, It Feels So Good
I have forgotten this feeling. It has been so long. When you’re doing something so challenging you feel like you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re absolutely gonna die. But then you keep saying in your mind that you will…