Nearly missed today.

It’s easy for me to get sidetracked without a certain target to aim for. This morning I went downstairs with the intent to grab a coffee and return to do some yoga, reading, and writing. Instead, I read my new cookbook and devised a plan for Duck Week — which involves me cooking various duck dishes. Followed by hours of messing around on guitar, ukulele, and piano.

I’m trying to get those skills back, not that I’ve ever been particularly good at them. But, since I always am looking for a good jam and you can’t always have a full drum kit with you or even be the only drummer I’m trying to improve. You could say I’m diversifying my skill portfolio I guess.

Which unintentionally segues incredibly well to the book I started reading today — the biography of Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson of Steve Jobs bio fame. He is well known for reinventing himself and being quite the polymath. Perhaps, minus the politics, he has a skill set I’d love to draw from. If anything, in reading this bio, I hope to find some inspiration to further develop myself and also maybe some good habits to pick up. Not to mention the entertainment and educational value I’ll get from reading about one of history’s greats.

Anyways, it should make for some interesting tidbits along the way. I also currently have Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and Economics in One Lesson (I think that’s the title) on my night stand. So expect a few references to those as well.

Also, in a recent move, I’ve been allowing myself to stop reading books when I lose interest. Tonight I quit Atlas Shrugged. An ok book, but not well enough written to keep my interest. I wanted to know the ending so I checked it out on wikipedia and the end of the book actually sounds more exciting. So maybe I’ll pick it up again to finish like I did for Infinite Jest.

If you’d like to follow along with what I’m reading or have read OR more interesting to me— would like to share your recommendations, lets’s connect on Goodreads.