Back from travel, which means a fulfilling week at work but one that upended a few habits.

Reading: It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley and Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen

I finished Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet, The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers, and The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting by Dr. Steve Morlidge in various states of traveling last week. The first two made me cry as I finished them, though of course part of that could have been the heavily pressurized cabins of the planes.

The Marquet book is an inspiring story of the transformation of a nuclear sub. The big takeaway is the how of doing that. How do you go from a top-down hierarchy to one where everyone is thinking and acting for themselves, but in coordination? It’s worth a read for any leader attempting that type of transformation.

The Monk of Mokha is one of those non-fiction stories that reads like fiction (in a good way). It tells the story of a young man of Yemeni descent trying to find his way in the U.S., and eventually realizing, I don’t know, a path to self-realization through coffee and his own heritage. Again, biased by the flight-induced crying, but if you’re at all interested in coffee, I’d read this.

Watching: We just started The Last of Us on HBO. Never played the video game. I liked the first episode even though I hate zombies/horror.

Listening to: The Record by Boy Genius, Tropic Morning News by The National

Playing: Got in a little Vampire: Survivors on the plane, but nothing other than that.

Habit Watch: 4 of 7 days meditated, 1 of 7 exercised