"One side saw a forest but no trees . . . one side saw trees but no forest"

Stay WholeI love the feeling of finding a new book. Especially one I know is going to be a winner. In this case, the recommendation came from good buddy Rick Magee, one of the smartest guys I know. When Rick says, ‘game-changer’ then you go straight to the Amazon one-click-buy-it-now button. Here’s a good summary of Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know. (Note that the summary also offers some negative critique around the over-simplification of some of the complex interactions Gladwell highlights in the book.)

Cathy is reading along with me and we are also listening to the audiobook, as Gladwell reads it himself, plus inserts many voices from the actual subjects studied in the book, as well as recorded news clips when possible. He describes this as an audiobook, with the polish of a well-produced podcast. Here’s a snippet from the audiobook. It will hook you!

The timing of this book is quite remarkable considering the recent events in our country.

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NUGGETS began in the fall of 2010 when our oldest daughter left for college. (Make it a Great Monday; Stay Whole Tuesday; Woman Power Wednesday; Make Anything Thursday; and Fit as a Fiddle Friday.) All these years later, we have a UGA grad, a SCAD grad, a Fightin’ Texas Aggie grad, and 1500 nuggets. Plus, Mum and Dad up and moved to England. Those are my daughters above, and their guiding light – truly my every gPage Singletary thing.

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RELEVANCE: From Beginning to End

How do you find and enjoy a place of purpose when you start your career, throughout your career, and when you stop ‘working’ and use your wisdom, resources, and skills to give back to the world? That’s right, from beginning to end. You don’t have to settle for doing things you do not enjoy.

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"Pretty good juggler of the mind, the heart, the body, and the soul, though certainly not catching all the balls all the time." See my road of life by license plates. How did NUGGETS FROM DAD begin? What in the world is every gPage Singletary thing?

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Dear Harvey: Staying in the Game

In the end, Harvey, you left us your Little Red Book—a lifetime of lessons condensed into something small enough to fit in a pocket, yet broad enough to guide generations. These letters are my attempt, in a much humbler way, to do the same—to gather what the game has taught me so far, and to keep discovering what lies at the edges.

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Lateral Thinking & AI: The Future of Making

Lateral Thinking + AI is a five-part Make Anything Thursday series exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping not just the tools we use, but the way we think. From systems-level insight to the power of lateral thinking, the series connects AI with the human imagination — showing how creators, leaders, and future makers can thrive in a world where machines accelerate the work and our thinking elevates it.

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