About

You are what you eat, they say

Here’s what I’ve been consuming

My Top…

Psychology

  • Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson
  • The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck
  • The Surrender Experiment, Michael Singer
  • Being Ram Das, Ram Das
  • The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Fiction

  • The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King
  • The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
  • The Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin

Technology and Business

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Harari
  • Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
  • Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmul
  • Unscripted, MJ DeMarco
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey

Society and History

  • The Alchemy of Air, Thomas Hager
  • Factfulness, Hans Rosling
  • Sapiens, Yuval Harari
  • Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
  • New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

The Rest of `Em

2022

  • The Dharma of the Princess Bride

2021

  • Foundation
  • Kitchen Confidential
  • Atlas of AI
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Being Ram Das
  • The Name of the Wind
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • New Earth
  • The Body Keeps the Score
  • Never Split the Difference
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Lean Startup
  • Unscripted
  • Homo Deus
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Edge of Eternity
  • Lonesome Dove
  • The Heir to the Empire
  • A Wizard of Earthsea
  • The Tombs of Antuan
  • The Farthest Shore

2020

  • The Order of Time
  • The Four Agreements
  • The Power of Now
  • Creativity, Inc.
  • North Node Astrology
  • Ask and It is Given
  • Dune Messiah
  • Dune
  • The Seat of the Soul
  • Darth Plagueis
  • Winter of the World
  • Fall of Giants
  • World Without End
  • The Road Less Traveled
  • Why We Sleep
  • The Surrender Experiment
  • The Untethered Soul
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • The Unfettered mind
  • Deep Work
  • The Power of Habit
  • Good Profit
  • If our Bodies Could Talk
  • The Obstacle is the Way

Are you only going to put books on here, Wes?

Glad you asked. I’ve got more for you than books.

As a kid I religiously played Age of Empires II and Resident Evil IV (Help me, Leon!). I loved chess, especially wizard’s chess, and Mancala.

Scooby Doo was an early childhood hero, as was Arthur (mostly because his sister was SO similar to mine).

I got into this book, Weslandia, and spent a summer living in my backyard pretending to be a warlock. And we’re back on books.

I thought I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, but a certain high school chemistry teacher told me I would get bored if I didn’t pursue science. No regrets. But, honestly, it’s all pretty interesting…

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P.S. I love (both) my sisters