About me

Written by Kurt

I live in Dallas, Texas with my wife Susanne.  To pay the bills I work in management & strategy consulting.  In 2007 I finished an MBA at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and took 3 months off to travel before going back to work.

Books I'm reading or have read recently:

  • 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