Book Title: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft Book Author: Paul Allen Date read: March 17, 2012 Read my review on Amazon.com Print PDF
Date Read: March 1, 2011 Title: The Search Author: John Battelle Why I read The Search: Although I’ve been a federal prisoner since 1987, and I’ve never had direct access to the Internet, I began building a Web presence in the mid 1990s. The Wall Street Journal and other business publications educated me about [...]
Shirley S. Wang published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled A Field Guide to the Middle-Class U.S. Family earlier this week. It described a study by Elinor Ochs, an anthropologist from UCLA. Dr. Ochs conducted an ethnographic study of family life in the United States. Two of the questions the study sought to [...]
A case manager at the Atwater Federal Prison Camp told me that the system worked. He said that my having “worked my way down” from a United States Penitentiary, to medium-security prisons, to low-security prisons, to federal prison camps proved that it could be done. I told him that I didn’t agree with his assessment. [...]
Citizens from numerous other countries frequently write to Michael to voice their opinions of the U.S. prison system as it compares to the justice/prison system in their home countries. The overwhelming message conveyed by these global citizens is that America’s love affair with long-term, mass incarceration of its population is disgraceful. Here’s an interesting review [...]
Michael has a chapter included in this new text; he is the only prisoner who was invited to contribute a chapter. “Proving that the problems of sentencing and corrections, writ large, cannot be addressed effectively or comprehensively within the confines of any one discipline, The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections is a vital reference [...]
Title: Sam Walton: Made in America, My Story Author: Sam Walton with john Huey Date read: March 1, 2012 Why I read Sam Walton: I’ve never shopped in a Wal-Mart store. When my prison term began, in 1987, the Wal-Mart chain had not yet spread to the Seattle area, where I [...]
In one of my recent daily journals, I referenced a Wall Street Journal article that expressed the importance that employers place upon hiring job candidates who can prove their ability to communicate effectively. Those employers wrote that they would consider hiring individuals with unconventional backgrounds, but only if the job candidates could distinguish themselves from [...]
My wife, Carole, gave me some news yesterday about a series of articles that the Washington Post published regarding the clemency process. She then shared the articles with me and I read the extensive series. It was very disheartening, suggesting that the process of applying for executive clemency wasn’t fair. I wasn’t surprised to read [...]
Today I began my day at 3:01. My editing work took me through the early morning, until 5:00. I went outside to exercise for 2.2 hours, doing my routine of pushups and running. After exercising I continued editing my new manuscript. It’s time consuming work because I have to read every line very closely. I [...]
