Books

I read It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff after hearing it referenced on The Tim Ferriss Show in comparison to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. I loved the mental and attitude approach of Marie Kondō‘s book, and Peter Walsh has a very similar mentality but without the spirituality. Whereas many people wind up dismissing Kondō because of her zanier aspects (e.g….

The true purpose of tidying is, I believe, to live in the most natural state possible. A wonderfully written and foundational work on the art of organization. Marie Kondō‘s book on how to tidy up your house is certainly inspirational. Her implementation of her concepts may not be for everyone (and is the cause of most of the negative reviews) but her ideas and thoughts are rock solid and provide…

Welcome to my recap of my 2016 Goodreads reading challenge.  In case you couldn’t tell from my book reviews here on Rampant Discourse, I love books of all stripes.  I spend an inordinate amount of my free time reading, especially for an engineer (my day job).  So let’s get to it! I joined Goodreads in 2012 to track my reading and hopefully interact with other bibliophiles.  While the interaction has…

After all, the most interesting of us have been broken and mended and broken again. Jenny Lawson struggles with depression and mental illness. That is front and center in her author bio on the back flap of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things. It’s also the topic of most of the essays in this collection. You don’t have to share her issues to enjoy her writings, but it…