Reading Time: 2 minutes

I got shut out on books.  Did I mention moving sucks.

Updated stats through July:

	Articles	Books
January	79	4
February	78	1
March	96	2
April	96	4
May	127	3
June	49	3
July	78	0
August	93	3
September	59	3
October	62	0
November	49	1
December	5	1
Total	921	25

Here are my most influential reads – in no particular order:

1. Creating Impeccable Structure for Your Life – “We deeply feel the messiness of our lives.”
2. Best Route to Wealth: Savings or Earnings, a Debate – “The things we own, and more broadly the lifestyle we lead, often end up owning us.”
3. The 100 hour asset – “We’re all so busy doing our work that sometimes we fail to build a skill worth owning.”
4. How a $30 digital product cleaned up at the Grammys – “YoungKio’s story shows that creating small digital projects is a fun, accessible, and “non” gatekept path for creative expression with a ton of optionality.”
5. 4 Surprising Steps to Achieve Your Long-Term Financial Goals – “A much better approach is to look directly at your wants and desires. Don’t ignore them. Instead, understand them.”
6. The Things We Take With Us When We Move – “Sparks Joy.”
7. Chris Wallace masterfully turned in what might have been the best TV interview ever with President Donald Trump – “Watch for yourself. Ultimately, how the president did is your call. But there’s not much debate about how Wallace did. He was excellent.”
8. Intel ‘Stunning Failure’ Heralds End of Era for U.S. Chip Sector – “Intel Corp.’s decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the U.S., dominated the semiconductor industry.”
9. Low Real Yields – You Can’t Avoid Them – “Indeed, if you can figure out a way to buy an asset without locking in the fundamental reality that the real risk-free rate is -1%, please let me know.”
10. The Grifters, chapter 1 – Kodak – “I mean … I knew things were bad in Rochester, but I didn’t know they were that bad.”

Note: This is based on when I read the article, not necessarily when it was first published.  Unfortunately, my backlog of things I would like to read always seems to dwarf the amount of time I can devote to reading.