Reading Room: The Art of Learning

The Art of Learning is a book by Josh Waitzkin, the kid from Searching for Bobby Fischer. He talks about his struggles dealing with the competition and publicity he faced as an elite chess player, why he ended up quitting the game and how he applied the lessons from...

Reading Room: The War of Art

“A vital gem… a kick in the ass.” – Esquire Steven Pressfield is better known for being the author of The Legend Of Bagger Vance.  This book was given to me by an old girlfriend to help me overcome some writer’s block I was having with my music career. ...

Reading Room: Soccernomics

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski attempts to apply the science of stats to the world’s most popular sport: association football. Soccer is incredibly hard to judge on stats alone, however. It’s easy to see what goes into the creation of a run, but what...