My 2012 reading list
At the beginning of the year I set as a personal objective to read at least 15 books. This will be a low number for some of you and a high one for others. To me it looked challenging but achievable…...
View ArticleThe Art of War
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu. I recently finished reading “The Art of War“ for a second time. The book in itself verses on tactics, strategies and concepts related to war. However, today it is...
View ArticleTime Value of Money
In courses about finance in the past, as part of job-related investment projections, for personal investments and as part of exercises related to posts in this blog I have discounted cash flows several...
View ArticleThe Roaring Nineties
The Roaring Nineties, Joseph E. Stiglitz. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1) served and later chaired the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1997. He was awarded...
View ArticleMy 2015 reading list
In this post I wanted to share the list of books I read along the year (1) with a small comment for each one (2), links to Wikipedia articles about the book (if available) and to the authors (in case...
View ArticleReading language
In a previous post, Musings on objectives setting, I mentioned about reading: I found that I am not that fast reader (in English and French and neither in Spanish!) nor all the books that I pick are...
View ArticleReading format
In a previous post, Reading language, I reflected on the mix of languages about the books that I read. This post, some days later, triggered the idea of taking a look at which format do I use when...
View ArticleWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running (book review)
Haruki Murakami is Japanese writer of World fame. Murakami happens to be a consistent runner since the early 1980s, about the same time as he went full-time with the process of becoming a professional...
View ArticleReading language and format (2016 update)
About a year ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts where I reflected on the mix of languages I used when reading books between English, French and Spanish and about the format of the books I read,...
View ArticleMy 2022 reading list
In this post I wanted to share the list of books I read along the year (1) with a small comment for each one and links to some Twitter threads where I shared some passages that caught my attention...
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