From The Slight Edge a new book by Jeff Olsen in which he talks about how to gain, you’ve guessed it, The Slight Edge by using incremental actions and daily gains rather than world shattering leaps or a quick fix. Worth printing and sticking on your wall – where you can see it. Show Up.Continue reading “Slight Edge Habits”
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The Weekend Read – The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Ever since I heard Einstein’s saying that, “All things should be made as simple as possible but no simpler”, I have sought, espoused and taught a philosophy of simplicity. I used Mike Wise’s dictum to make your restorative work recoverable when doing clinical work and applied the same thought to all systems. Now Dr JohnContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda”
Unobtainiums and electric toothbrushes
Thanks to reestheskin for this. From The Economist’s book review – The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age. By David Abraham. Yale University Press, 319 pages; $30 and £20. So remember when you’re prescribing electric toothbrushes just what goes into them and what theyContinue reading “Unobtainiums and electric toothbrushes”
The Weekend Read – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
My intention with the first blog of the year was to describe the New Year Swim in Glandore Harbour in aid of the RNLI. This is a great community event that I have joined in for the past dozen years or so where any hangovers are removed in the chilly water. To see the needContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”
The Weekend Read – No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
This is not a book about dentistry, business, rugby or rock music. Nor is it a work of fiction although some of the press and a great number of politicians would you have you believe that it is. It’s an unusual one for me to mention here but why not share what could prove toContinue reading “The Weekend Read – No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald”
The Weekend Read – The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes
Gary Taubes is a scientific researcher and journalist. His previous books have examined the myth of cold fusion and scientific experimentation. The cover claims that he is “America’s most controversial scientific writer”. When the book was published in 2009 my brother suggested that I give it a look, at 640 pages and with a hostContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes”
Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.
The neurologist Oliver Sacks has died in New York. There is a full obituary in The Guardian here. I read the piece (below) in the New York Times earlier this year after listening to a review of his autobiography. Like most of us I would like to think that I could be so eloquent aboutContinue reading “Oliver Sacks – R.I.P.”
The Monday Morning Quote #332 – Poems in August #4
Happy The Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, uponContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #332 – Poems in August #4”
The Weekend Read – Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
One of the biggest challenges that we all face is change. Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world’s leading executive coaches and he hasn’t got there by failing to help his clients succeed. To do so he has to be able to walk the talk in his own life and this book reflects how hisContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith”
The Weekend Read – Better by Atul Gawande
If Atul Gawande is anything like as good a surgeon as he is a writer and thinker then his patients are in good hands. Subtitled, “A Surgeons Notes on Performance” the author looks at medicine in a variety of locations from battlefields in Iraq, through courtrooms to maternity suites and specialities including treating polio outbreaksContinue reading “The Weekend Read – Better by Atul Gawande”
The Incisal Edge 