About me

Written by Kurt

I live in Dallas, Texas.  To pay the bills I work in management and strategy consulting.  I’ve survived a BBA, an MBA, and running a small business.  For fun I travel and take photographs.

Books I’ve read recently and enjoyed:

  • Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown
  • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
  • Conquest of the Incas
  • How We Know What Isn’t So
  • The State of Africa
  • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
  • The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu And the French Defeat in Vietnam
  • The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
  • Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  • Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam
  • Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
  • Cryptonomicon
  • The Best and the Brightest
  • Arsenals of Folly
  • Freedom