Archive | February, 2025

Visual Literacy is an ongoing interest of mine. I’ve written previously about Edward Tufte’s wonderful series of books on the topic. More recently, I stumbled upon a great website I’d like to share with you. Professor Dr. Martin Eppler and Dr. oec. HSG Christian Muntwiler have created Visual.Literacy.org. The website is: https://www.visual-literacy.org/ Here you can […]

My last book review wasn’t too complimentary. I suggested that you do not waste your time reading Fluke. But this one you should read as it is a gem. Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr, subtitled How Our Planet Came to Life, is one of those books that deals with some complex topics, but in language […]

This book, Fluke, was brought to my attention because I listened to an interview on NPR with the author, Brian Klaas. The interview was really good, and the author’s story was compelling. The subtitle of the book is, Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters. In a personal example of flukes providing world-changing outcomes, […]

When we say something is a “no brainer,” we mean it is an easy decision to make. I have my own definition of no brainers, that being something that you should never do, and it should be an easy decision. But sometimes we do things we shouldn’t. Maybe it would be easier to explain my […]

This book was first published in 2015 and has received rave reviews ever since, from Bill Gates and others. The author, Yuval Hoah Harari, has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford and is a lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. What first struck me about this book was the […]

The author of The Algebra of Wealth is Scott Galloway, who is a professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, who has founded a number of businesses, and who has one of the most widely read blogs on the internet: No Mercy/No Malice. He is a real thought leader. I don’t agree with […]

How is my practice different from other fractional CFOs? Let me compare my practice to the typical fractional CFO practice. There are several of them in town. The typical model for most fractional CFO firms is to have each of their CFOs work on two-to-four clients at a time. At each client, the CFO will […]

Lights Out by two experienced business reporters, Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann, is subtitled Pride, Delusion and the Fall of General Electric. That about sums it up. I’m quite sure that everyone reading this review is aware of GE to one degree or another. The company was founded from the experimental work of Thomas Edison […]

Most of you probably know that H Mart is a Korean grocery store chain in North America. They have several stores in the Greater Seattle area. They have everything Koreans need to make their favorite foods, plus plenty of other Asian but non-Korean foods. This book by Michelle Zauner is a memoir that is a […]

Much of life we plan for, as best we can, and much is pure chance. On the pure chance side of things, my family and I were in Hualien, Taiwan, for the 7.4 magnitude earthquake on April 3rd. It was a family vacation. My wife and I are raising our grandson. His other grandfather is […]