The Lunisolar New Year holidays come to their end in China with the Yuan Xiao (元宵节 / yuán xiāo jié), or Lantern Festival. Image taken from Internet Began over 2000 years ago, and linked to Emperor Ming (28 - 75) of the Han Dynasty, the festival has many meanings in Chinese culture. It celebrates family and…
Today it's Imbolc, let's celebrate it! Imbolc is a Gaelic traditional festival that celebrates the beginning of spring. Since the beginning of the spreading of Christianity in Ireland, it is also the feast of Saint Brigid, the country's patron saint. It gets celebrated between the 1st and the 2nd of February, halfway between the winter…
Today's Book of the Day is Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence, written by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb in 2022 and published by Harvard Business Review Press. Ajay Agrawal is Professor of Strategic Management and the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Toronto's Rotman School…
Today's Book of the Day - and my first book of 2023 - is Happier Hour, written by Cassie Holmes and published in 2022 by Gallery Books. Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an award-winning teacher and researcher of time and happiness. This book is her debut as an…
I completed my 2022 reading challenge (I use Goodreads as a digital bookshelf to keep track of them)! I have read 186 books, this year, learning new things, expanding my horizon, and bringing new tools in my case so as to better help people. Some say that reading cannot be seen as a challenge but…
Today's Book of the Day is Move, written by Caroline Williams and published in 2022 by Hanover Square Press. Caroline Williams is a British science journalist and editor. She contributed to The Guardian, The Boston Globe, BBC Future, and BBC Earth, among others. Move by Caroline Williams One topic that you always encounter during and…
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, today you can celebrate the winter solstice, the longest and darkest night of the year and the shortest day of the year. Celebrations of this day are among the oldest in human history, as today represents the day from which you have more daylight and also the beginning…
Today's Book of the Day is Finding Your Own North Star, written by Martha Beck and originally published in 1997 by Harmony. Martha Beck holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and is a bestselling international life coach, speaker, and author of several books. She dedicated her life and career to offering practical, effective, and supportive teachings…
Today's Book of the Day is Grit, written by Angela Duckworth and published in 2016 by Scribner. Dr. Angela Duckworth is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a world-renowned expert in those competencies that are not directly related to our IQ. Grit, by Angela Duckworth…
Today's Book of the Day is The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, published in 2010 by Hazelden. Brené Brown is a Research Professor at the University of Houston and a public speaker.She has spent her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of some #1 New York Times bestsellers like…
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