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The Hobbit is one of my favorite books. Thanks for the rec! In other Lord of the Rings discussion, I binged the entire extended edition over 3.5 days a few weeks ago. Watching them as they came out didn't do much for me. It was like reading a third of a book, taking a year break, then starting the n...

I liked All the Wrong Moves so much I read it almost nonstop and wouldn't stop that night until I finished it. One of the things I liked about it is the reality of Sasha's journey. There's a survivor's bias at work in most books of this type, or maybe it's a publisher's bias: The author goes on a j...

Boris, has Crossfit gotten smaller? I worked out last month at a former Crossfit affiliate, just using the space as an open gym. I get the sense that a lot of people parted ways. That said, I continue to come across anecdotal stories of people getting injured in training. Rest In Peace to the guy wh...

The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. This is a book for 9-12 year olds. I read a good amount of books in this age range because...they're light-hearted and fun! Personally, if I want to maximize my reading, I need some easy page-turners mixed in. As you move to books aimed at 12-15 yea...

Glad you gave Tools a try! What did you think of Lessons for Living?

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life by Boyd Varty. Boyd is both a life coach and an animal tracker. He weaves together the idea of following your own path with the way a tracker operates. And he does so while telling a colorful, illustrative story of tracking lions. As this is a self-help book, there'...

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. This book discusses how mental health in young people took a nosedive in 2012 and how that's linked to the smartphone, porn, addictive video games, and social media. He discusses ...

Netflix dropped the first five episodes of the final season. If you're someone who's enjoyed the show so far, this season's off to a great start.

MJ&S, I tried the documentary and Tools , but couldn’t connect with the material. Coming Alive is on the shelf, but I’ve yet to crack it. Hope you enjoy and look forwards to your thoughts. I read some of Herzog’s autobiography a few months ago, Every Man For Himself and God Against All . He’s a ...

Lessons for Living by Phil Stutz. I loved this book! It's a collection of short essays on a wide variety of topics, written by a therapist who comes across as a philosopher. He preaches a path of endless personal growth and self-ownership. I find it hard to believe that someone wouldn't get multipl...

Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara. An inspiring book on customer service that makes people feel seen, heard and included; building a thriving work culture; what commitment to excellence looks like; and watching the bottom line. If you work in any form of the service industry—and as a persona...

We don’t need a democracy, we need a dictatorship lol

It’s ghastly. That it’s split down partisan lines makes it seem very much a sculpted get-out-of-jail free card for Trump, without thought of the negative consequences that a bad actor—such as Trump—would unleash.

Haha, I thought you might have picked a Gang Starr song as I clicked on the link.

Medieval diss track:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dN4pUAMEwQI

Haven't given Amy Winehouse a fair shake. Damn, what a voice....

Heard about this band a couple days back, chill instrumentals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puG2iU7WCBQ

All The Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, And Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin. Sasha is a good writer, admittedly bipolar, and someone adrift—searching for meaning and self-worth. After a bout of competitive high school chess, he falls back under it’s spell in his late twenties—entering a...

The English version is available on Kindle, but I think the Japanese version comes up first. If you don't click the Japanese version and scroll down you should be able to find it.

The Will to Keep Winning , by Daigo "The Beast" Umehara. I feel sadness in reviewing this, because there is no way I'll get across how good this book is and how important I think it is and how much I hope you read it. Daigo is Japan's first pro-video gamer and I'm sure I've already lost s...

Another tank main! Playing Orissa when her shield was totally overpowered was a joy hahaha. And using her grapple to simultaneously pull multiple enemies to their doom….. :heart: I haven’t been to an arcade in a while, but I still recall the grimy sour odor…. Wolverine and Cyclops’s supers in Xmen v...

As I started the article, I was like “Good for her! Fuck cheaters!” Haha, and then at the end she’s trying to sweep kick the cops.

Ron, I’m in the same boat with first-person shooters. Top 200 on Halo 3, either top 500 or just outside of it on Destiny, at one point #11 on XBox for Orissa in Overwatch. If you haven’t read it, Daigo Umehara’s biography on being a Street Fighter champion is really fricking good. And it’s good for ...

Be Useful , a self-help book by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Two tips I found particularly useful: 1) Dream big. "When you only aim for the smaller goal, the big goal becomes automatically out of reach, in part because you are no longer motivated to truly go all in and focus on the little things tha...

The Dining Car by Eric Peterson. A former football star and a drunken gourmet travel across the US in a luxury passenger car. There is a story arc, though I thought for quite a while it was settling on being ridiculous. Lots of great lines, such as: "Never get in a fistfight with a Frenchman. ...

Played through roughly the first third of Journey today. What a beautiful experience! Definitely the kind of game to share with a non-gamer. Intuitive, intriguing, gorgeous. Thanks for the rec!

Ron, Your endorsement of Journey left me curious. Looks great! Here’s the trailer for anyone interested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=61DZC-60x20 Games are such an interesting medium. Some, like Street Fighter 6, encourage mastery and a deep dive. Others pad their runtime with seemingly endless fet...