This is a beautifully written and deliciously thought-provoking book. The portions on lichen alone made my head spin. From the description: “In Entangled Life, the brilliant young biologist Merlin Sheldrake shows us the world from a fungal point of view, providing an exhilarating change of perspective. Sheldrake’s vivid exploration takes us from yeast to psychedelics to the fungi that range for miles underground and are the largest organisms on the planet to those that link plants together in complex networks known as the ‘Wood Wide Web’ to those that infiltrate and manipulate insect bodies with devastating precision.” Low bow to R.G. for getting this book on my radar.

We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider, a dazzling collection of humor and insight, is the newest book in the Tim Ferriss Book Club. I loved this book so much that I reached out to Tim and we produced the audiobook together. “Lazy: A Manifesto” is one small chapter. If you want to stop feeling rushed, this might be the medicine you need. If you want to burst into hysterical laughter in airports and freak out everyone (as I did), look no further.If you want to say “That’s exactly how I feel, but I’ve never had the words to express it!” this book delivers.  There’s a chapter for everyone.

Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work of evolutionary biology, The Origin of Species introduces the scientific theory of evolution, which posits that species evolve over a period of many generations through a process of natural selection. Darwin's theories have been widely embraced by the scientific community as fact and have laid the foundation for subsequent major advances in the field of biology. It is arguably one of the most important scientific treatises ever written. This is the sixth edition of the formative text of evolutionary biology.

A fantastic book

There's there's a this you mentioning that the peer group or virtual or real board of directors with Divergent thought process has made me think of a book that really helped me a long time ago. I've been meaning to revisit it but it's actually a combination of two books and I don't know how well these would Age if I were to pick them up now for where I am, but I would honestly like 15 or 20 years ago found them. Very very helpful Edward de Bono is the author there's one book. I want to say it's lateral thinking the other was something along the lines of the the six thinking hats and the the conceit are the premise behind the lat. Is that you create a virtual table of advisers who represent different person a different extreme perspective, right? So you might have a pessimist you might have the innovator you might have the fill in the blank and there are a set of questions and priorities that each of those have so you run your situation through the lens of each of those thinking hats and I found that tremendously valuable for yes as you put it getting out of flat land.

One of my favorite books of the last five years.

There are principles in this that you can take away, even if you have no interest in training a dog, having a dog, or dogs in general.

I agree wholeheartedly with a lot of the co-opted science, which people can read a book called Bad Science, which is by a doctor named Ben Goldacre. It’s great.

It’ll blow your mind.