We're talking to management professor and executive director of the Clifton Strengths Institute Tim Hodges, who joins us to talk about writing (or not!) in books, notes from your past self, third spaces, and more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: A page from A Midsummer Night's Dream with margin notes (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
A Novel Idea Bookstore
Albert Bandura
Ruha Benjamin
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Walter Benjamin
"Unpacking My Library"
David Brooks
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks
The Road to Character
Pascale Casanova
The World Republic of Letters
Don Clifton
First, Break all the Rules
Mark Fisher
Postcapitalist Desire
Stephen Frears
High Fidelity
Chip and Dan Heath
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Dan Heath
What It's Like to Be… podcast
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
James Merrill
From the First Nine: Poems, 1946–1976
Leonard Michaels
The Essays of Leonard Michaels
C. Wright Mills
White Collar
Lukas Moodysson
Tilsammens (Together)
Vivek Murthy
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Daniel H. Pink
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Tom Rath / Jim Harter
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
Howard Schultz / Joanne Gordon
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul
Studs Terkel
Working
Richard H. Thaler / Cass R. Sunstein
Nudge
J. D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Boris Vian
Blues for a Black Cat and Other Stories
Tara Westover
Educated: A Memoir
