Category: Articles

I first heard the term ‘global village‘ a long time ago. Marshall McLuhan coined it in the 1960s, imagining an interconnected humanity all coming to...

I’ve heard a lot recently about ‘picking the right college major’. It’s normal to worry about such things. I remember. But I think obses...

By MJ DeMarco. 323 pages. NOTE: Whenever I read a nonfiction book, I like to summarize the ‘meat’ of it, the parts that really had value to me (I co...

Today I was organizing my collection of book reading notes, and wondered: how many books have I read in my lifetime? I made a wild (and probably generous) guess...

Gentrification is complex. Many say it’s better than the alternative. In many American cities, “blighted” areas are redeveloped or otherwise t...

Note: This first appeared in The Oregonian newspaper on June 18, 2007. One of Portland’s best opportunities to be “green” is going down the dr...

In 2012, I wrote and published the book How to Get Started As A Technical Writer. I did it without any preparation, marketing plan, mailing list, or ‘book...

A long-ago encounter with celebrity: In the 80s, one of my college jobs was driving a cab. One night at about 3am, I get a call to a bar downtown called the Key...

By Tim Ferris. 736 pages. NOTE: Whenever I read a nonfiction book, I like to summarize the ‘meat’ of it, the parts that really had value to me (I co...

By James Clear. 306 pages. NOTE: Whenever I read a nonfiction book, I like to summarize the ‘meat’ of it, the parts that really had value to me (I c...