by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Creativity
On a lovely trans-Cascades drive this week, I had the opportunity to listen to the book The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek. (I tend to approach these types of books by audio). Sinek develops a powerful concept: finite games have fixed rules, fixed players, and a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Habit
On a recent set of road trips from Seattle to Wenatchee to get our Covid vaccinations, my wife and I had the pleasure en route of listening to Marie Kondo’s audiobook Joy At Work. For those of you who don’t know her, Ms. Kondo is a Japanese tidying expert whose...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews
For a writing project I am working on, I needed to better understand the history of Seattle concerning the regional Native American community. Low and behold, I had the good fortune to find this jewel of a book, The River That Made Seattle, written by BJ Cummings....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Philosophy
I just finished reading The Universe Speaks in Numbers, by the physicist Graham Farmelo. It’s a great week’s read for those people interested in the relationship between math and science, and it borders on a must-read for those younger people interested in STEM,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Writing
The book A History of PI by Petr Beckmann (1971) is what I call a role-model book, the type of book I would love to write myself. Apart from giving a nice step by step history of the mathematics behind pi, starting with Mesopotamia and ending with the current period...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | AI Ethics, Book Reviews, Healthcare Ethics
My Deep-Reading book for this winter is “Philosophy of Mind” by David Chambers. It’s the textbook used by Oxford University’s Continuing Education Course on the Philosophy of Mind. It’s a significant textbook: 675 dense pages with 63 essays, covering both the...
