We're talking to management professor and executive director of the Clifton Strengths Institute Tim Hodges, who joins us to talk about writing (or not!) in books, notes from your past self, third spaces, and more!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: A page from A Midsummer Night's Dream with margin notes (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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A Novel Idea Bookstore Albert Bandura Ruha BenjaminRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Walter Benjamin"Unpacking My Library"

David BrooksHow to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David BrooksThe Road to Character

Pascale CasanovaThe World Republic of Letters

Don CliftonFirst, Break all the Rules

CliftonStrengths Henry Cloud

Mark FisherPostcapitalist Desire

Stephen FrearsHigh Fidelity

Adam Grant

Chip and Dan HeathDecisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Dan HeathWhat It's Like to Be… podcast

Daniel Kahneman

Tressie McMillan CottomLower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

James MerrillFrom the First Nine: Poems, 1946–1976

Leonard MichaelsThe Essays of Leonard Michaels

C. Wright MillsWhite Collar

Lukas MoodyssonTilsammens (Together)

Vivek MurthyTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

PBS News Hour

Daniel H. PinkWhen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Proverbs

Psalms

Tom Rath / Jim HarterWellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Howard Schultz / Joanne GordonOnward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul

Studs TerkelWorking

Richard H. Thaler / Cass R. SunsteinNudge

J. D. VanceHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Boris VianBlues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

Tara WestoverEducated: A Memoir