Professional Reading

One of my personal hobbies is reading and listening to non-fiction books and podcasts. An unintentional benefit I've realized is that I have developed unique perspectives about education because of the reading and learning I do outside of education-specific professional development. 

My favorite author is Malcolm Gladwell. He specializes in social psychology, and I have read all of his books. I also discovered Audible and Blinkist through his podcast, where I discovered many other incredible thinkers like Peter Thiel and David Epstein. I am currently fascinated with a few ideas that I have worked through personally and am trying to applied to my teaching practices.

• Malcolm Gladwell's explanations on "desirable difficulty" in schools

• David Epstein's thesis in his book, Range - the benefits of being a generalist in a specialized world

• Peter Thiel's "contrarian truth" interview question, author of Zero to One

• Peter Thiel's horizontal vs vertical progress model, the difference between 0 to 1 and 1 to n