What's it about? The Detour CEO (2025) traces the unconventional path of a leader who didn’t climb a straight ladder but made strategic detours en route to the “CEO” title. It breaks down lessons from these twists and turns, providing readers with a practical guide to navigating their own road to leadership success. Most people picture professional success as a straight climb – one rung at a time, steadily up the ladder. But real life rarely works that way. Careers are full of twists, turns, and unexpected detours. Those detours can feel like setbacks, but more often, they’re the very experiences that hone your resilience, sharpen your skills, and prepare you for opportunities you couldn’t have otherwise imagined. If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re on the “right” path, you’re not alone. The truth is, there isn’t one sure-fire route to leadership or professional fulfillment. What really matters is how intentional you are with each decision along the way. When you ground yo...

What's it about? Nobody Wants Your Sh*t (2023) delivers a profanity-laced wake-up call about clearing out possessions while you still can. It blends irreverent humor alongside actionable decluttering advice, aiming to help you simplify your daily existence and spare loved ones from the burden of your possessions. Most people spend their lives acquiring stuff. They buy, collect, inherit, and store – building personal archives that grow quietly in closets, garages, and storage units across the world. But what happens to these collections when they’re gone? The Swedish concept of döstädning, or “death cleaning,” offers a refreshing alternative to this cycle of accumulation. Despite the name, death cleaning isn’t morbid – it’s life-affirming. It invites us to rethink our relationship with our possessions, asking what truly deserves space in our lives right now. This lesson offers practical approaches to align your living space with your actual life, freeing up breathing room for y...

What's it about? Confronting Evil (2025) recounts the deeds of history’s worst men. Evil, it suggests, is multifaceted. From Roman emperors to American slave traders, Nazi officials to Mexican drug cartels, it shows us that while evil often is truly monstrous, it can also be disconcertingly ordinary. And because it can be found everywhere, we have to remain vigilant. Caligula said he was God. American slave traders believed that the human commodities they traded were just that – things, not people. Stalin, like Hitler, said History was on his side. Drug pushers claim they’re simply giving people what they want. When it comes to the harm humans do to one another, there always seems to be a good reason. Bill O’Reilly, a self-avowed straight-talker, doesn’t want to hear it. Cut the crap, he says – it’s nothing but malevolent sleight of hand. When you get down to it, he thinks, evil has a simple definition: harming a human without remorse. It’s vivid and to the point. Nothing el...

What's it about? A Field Guide to Lies (2016) is a survival manual for our information-saturated world. With lessons on how to spot misleading statistics, arguments, and reports, its guidance is organized into two key areas: statistical information and faulty arguments. You’ll learn to recognize when numbers are being manipulated, and to avoid falling for logical fallacies in an age where misinformation spreads rapidly. A Field Guide to Lies Every day, you’re bombarded with information designed to persuade, inform, or influence you. A news headline claims a shocking statistic. A social media post shares a “groundbreaking” study. In our hyperconnected world, distinguishing truth from manipulation has become both more crucial and more challenging than ever. The problem isn’t just that bad information exists – it’s that our brains are wired to accept convincing narratives and impressive-looking numbers without much scrutiny. We live in an age where anyone can dress up opinion as...

What's it about? Me, My Customer, and AI (2025) explores how entrepreneurs can harness artificial intelligence to experiment faster, reduce barriers to entry, and build more customer-focused businesses. It shows how AI can act as a co-pilot for founders, supporting innovation while leaving space for the human qualities of empathy and insight. With practical frameworks and exercises, it helps translate AI’s potential into sustainable competitive advantage. Have you ever had an idea you just couldn’t shake? Maybe it was frustration in your own life that made you think, someone should really fix this. More than half of adults surveyed say they’ve had such an idea – but very few take the leap. For decades, entrepreneurship seemed reserved for a small circle of risk-takers with capital, connections, and sleepless nights to spare. That reality is shifting fast. Artificial intelligence has lowered the barriers to entry, letting you test ideas, build prototypes, and reach customers in w...

What's it about? Coming Up Short (2025) shares politician and academic Robert Reich’s insider perspective on working in the Carter and Clinton administrations, and examines whether his generation of politicians and activists succeeded in making America more inclusive and democratic or fell short of those ideals. In 1946, within just two months, four babies were born who would all shape American politics: Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Robert Reich. Reich's grandmother told him he'd be President someday. Perhaps she was trying to reassure her grandson that despite his small stature – Reich only ever grew to be 4 foot 11 – he'd accomplish great things. Reich never became President like those born around him, but he did get a close-up view of all their presidencies. He started his career in the Ford and Carter administrations and served as Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton. The story of Reich’s career is intertwined with another, bleaker story: the s...

What's it about? Tame Your Thoughts (2025) presents a Christian perspective on the link between thinking patterns and wellbeing. It outlines biblical tools aimed at transforming destructive mental habits and incorporates neuroscience-informed strategies for challenges such as worry, guilt, and anxiety. The perspective emphasizes that, since God designed the brain, it can be retrained through deliberate thought management grounded in biblical principles. You spend much of your life inside your own mind, yet the character of that inner space is rarely explored. Thoughts drift in, opinions settle, and old stories repeat until they feel true. In fact, researchers at USC’s Laboratory of NeuroImaging reckon our brains process around 70,000 thoughts daily. That’s a lot of thoughts! Thoughts that inspire, help, remind, remember, and, yes, also harm. All too often, our thoughts get twisted into destructive loops – the same worries, regrets, and fears cycling through our minds over and ove...