This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

Casey

I was curious if this book would analogize to my work as a CPA in the US. Obviously the medical stuff and life-or-death nature of the job doesn’t correlate at all. Despite the view of many corporate executives, a private company’s financial statements aren’t saving lives. No one dies if we don’t issue an audit on time. However, there are a lot of life lessons that can be gained from this book.

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Tender is the Flesh

Casey

I’m a carnivore. Not like on the carnivore diet. Although I eat woefully few vegetables. Let’s just say that I eat enough fruit and vegetables, in combination with my vitamins and supplements, that my chances of getting scurvy are not nonexistent. I can’t not eat meat; the perfectly cooked, medium rare sirloin (or baseball-cut filet mignon) that is paired with a delicious bearnaise… All I’m saying is that I love me a good steak. I don’t need to know where it comes from, how it’s made, or anything like that.

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Artemis

Casey

Question: How many smelters could a smelter melter melt if a smelter melter could melt smelters?

Answer: As many smelters as a smelter melter could melt if a smelter melter could melt smelters.

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Casey

Looking for a book about space, but you don’t have “space” in your schedule to sit down and read a huge friggin’ textbook? Let Neil deGrasse Tyson, this generation’s Carl Sagan, be your guide through the cosmos. Want something even better? Have the author read it right to you! In more of a hurry than even the audiobook can handle? Speed that bad boy up to 2x and listen to this in under 2 hours!

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