It has been a long time since I posted something on TRD. I needed some time to think about where I want to take the blog. I still enjoy writing immensely and I’ll try to keep doing it. But for now, it is unclear in what way the blog here will play a role in […]
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What To Do When the Book You’re Reading Sucks We’ve all been in that situation where we read a book and every page seems like it passes by slower and slower. We forget what the last page was about. We go back and read it again. And get even more bored of the book. Time
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When you search for self-development books on Amazon, you’ll get over 60,000 results. The same search on goodreads yields 20,000 books. It might feel like self-development books (or self-improvement or self-help – you choose) are one of the major (book) trends of the 21st century: get more done in less time, love better, eat better, work
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Playing the Enemy by John Carlin This is the first stanza of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley (Poetry Foundation, 2022). Individual lines were used by Winston Churchill in a speech during WWII (International Churchill Society, 2021) and it was on the cover of The Economist with a large picture of Nelson Mandela upon his death in December 2013 (The Economist, 2013). Henley’s
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Six Books I Got for Christmas Over the years, the nature of the gifts I got for Christmas has changed quite a lot. What used to be Lego Star Wars, are now books. And while my Lego Star Wars collection has been reduced to one lonely, damaged and dusty Yoda Star Fighter, the book collection
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Taking Control of Your Time – Why We Should be Saving Money Here we go again. It is that topic again: saving. A bunch has been written in books, blogs, and newspaper articles. A bunch has been said on podcasts, the news and talk shows. A bunch has been said by celebrities, life coaches, stock
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What makes a human kill someone? How good can a motive be? Ferdinand von Schirach’s novel “The Collini Case” (originally “Der Fall Collini”) is about Fabrizio Collini who out of seemingly nowhere kills the successful businessmen Hans-Meyer. Caspar Leinen, Collini’s lawyer, can’t quite figure out why. So what makes a human kill someone? Crime Ferdinand
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The books I read can sometimes be a little lobsided. A lot of economics, business, and finance. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy other genres as well. I absolutely do and Born A Crime by Trevor Noah is a perfect example of a wonderful book, that is unusual for my bookshelf. Spear of the Nation Apartheid
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How to Find the Motivation to Read It can be hard to pick up a book. There is so much else you could do with your time. And sometimes reading can be very boring and you find yourself lost in different thoughts every 5 minutes – having no idea what you just read. I know
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Super Freakonomics – More Absurd than Ever One of the very first posts on TRD was Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It is one heck of a book. But it was also weird (in a good sense), as it had no obvious overarching theme. It was much more about a style of
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