This evening I am finishing up a book I got last week by Tiago Forte called Life in Perspective. I am a fan of Forte’s book Building a Second Brain and generally like the guy and his advice for knowledge workers and second brain geeks like myself. His new book is about condcuting a comprehensive annual review that forces one to look back, take stock of the present, and then plan the future with intention. We could all benefit from that, me especially. While many would likely see spending a whole weekend going through the process Forte lays out a waste, it is something that resonates with me and I intend to put the ideas in the book to the test next month during my two week break from teaching.

As I finish that book, another one just arrived on my doorstep. The new one is called Dead Dharma: The Grateful Dead and the American Quest for Transcendence, and is written by Casey Rae and published by Oxford University Press. I came across this book in the Grateful Dead subreddit and it apparently was just released in September. It combines two of my loves, the BuddhaDharma and the Grateful Dead. I haven’t started reading it, so I can’t say anything about it for certain, but I am licking my chops to get started.