Hey, what's up everybody is Ed? I hope you all are doing great. Happy Thanksgiving to those of y'all in the United States and everybody else. I just hope you're having a very, very, very good November when I was was looking at the calendar and I was writing up my bimonthly book recommendations email,

I realized that this November, when I send this thing out, it will be 10 years of sending out

these emails.

I started in the fall of 2015 and I just sent out a few book recommendations that I'd read to a few friends.

I just had the idea. I think I took it from that guy, Ryan Holliday, who writes all the stoic books. He had a book recommendations email and I was like, well, I really like his email and I like to read and I got a bunch of friends that like to read. So why don't I just send one of those things out? And so, you know, I always say

I've never really had an original idea in my life. So thank you, Ryan Holliday for the idea.

And I put together some books that I'd read and sent it out to literally like 20, 30 friends,

I think, and people that I thought liked reading and they seemed to like it.

And so two months later, I sent out another one and another one.

And then I had to start using Mailchip because the list kept growing and growing and

growing.

And now, 10 years later, there's a ton of people on the list and and the thing is kind of taken on a life of its own. I've started getting all these books. Well, for many years now, I've been getting books in the mail from publishers and publicists and authors and all these really nice folks who are nice enough to send me their books. And so I'm sitting here in my shed right now and I'm looking around and

it's just insane. It's like wall-to-wall books, just piles and piles and piles of books, more

books that I'd, I'll ever be able to read my life. But they're all really good books written by

really good people. And so it's pretty cool that I get to send out these book recommendations. And so

for the 10-year anniversary, I figured I would combine it

with the podcast and I would give you a little more insight on the books that I'm recommending.

So at the same time, I'm going to publish this podcast, I'll be sending out that email.

And so if you're on the email list and you want to listen to this or you're not on the email

list, but you listen to this, you can sign up and you can see the books I read. It's just a standard list like I normally do with six, seven books on it that I read over the last two months that I thought people would recommend. And rather than just go through the exact recommendation as I have it written, I'm just going to kind of talk about why I like the

books. Because generally, when I read a book, I have some sort of personal connection to them.

You know, it's always been that case, something that I'm interested in, something that pops up in my life

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