Lemuria Bookstore Blog

The Art of Happiness at Work His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutter, M.D. Riverhead Books (2003) After writing about Linchpin and while reading reading the Dalai Lama’s new book, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World, I decided to reflect on this helpful book that I had read years ago. Happiness [...]

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin Portfolio (2010) Linchpin is about what the future of work looks like. As you read the book you realize it’s already happening. There are those people around you who have decided that a new kind of work is important and are retraining themselves to do it. These are [...]

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Literary Jackson indeed!  We hadn’t caught our breath from the Kathryn Stockett events before we were hit by another good one.  Yesterday evening we had Alan Lange and Tom Dawson, the two authors of Kings of Tort, pay us a visit.  In case you didn’t get this book for Christmas, Kings of Tort came out [...]

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When To Quit (And When to Stick) by Seth Godin Portfolio (2007) Yesterday, I was asked, “Are you going to close Lemuria?” I smiled back and simply said, “No.” Of course, no one knows the future, but as I reflect on Godin’s The Dip, I’m reinforced by [...]

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All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low Trust World by Seth Godin Portfolio (2005) While reading Seth’s new book Linchpin, I’m reflecting on his earlier inspiring work. Every marketer tells a story. And if they do it right, we believe them. That belief makes their story true. In this [...]

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What You Don’t Know You Know: Our Hidden Motives in Life, Business, and Everything Else Ken Eisold, Ph.D Other Press (2009) About 100 years ago, the unconscious began to be understood by Western psychology. As we were trained to understand the concept and explore it individually, we began to grasp an awareness. Our daily cultural [...]

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The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell Basic Books (2009) While recently reading 2010 articles on how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are attempting to avoid strangulation, I’m reflecting on Sowell’s eye-opening book I read last summer. Sowell’s wisdom is a reliable cornerstone of stability among all the babble on economic solutions spewing from [...]

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Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything Daniel Goleman Doubleday (2009) Ecological intelligence is our ability to adapt to our ecological niche. Our individual decisions reflect our understandings of organisms and their ecosystems and our capacity to deal effectively with our environment. Goleman feels its our responsibility as [...]

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In 2005 Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner came out with a book improbably titled Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything.  Unexpectedly it turned out to be a run-away success.  Now the same guys have come out with a follow-up book that purports to take up where their last book [...]

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Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America by Kurt Anderson (Random House, 2009) . . From Tom Brokaw’s Forward: “What has encouraged me greatly as I travel around the country, from the shaken baronies of Wall Street to the regional centers of commerce and back roads of rural America, is the [...]

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