With Winter getting along, my wife is insisting that I start taking the books I’ve recently read out of our bedroom and put them away downstairs.

I won’t bore you with the books that weren’t good, below are the ones I highly recommend:

• The Little Black Book of Violence: What Every Young Man Needs to Know About Fighting
• Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
• Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

If you have any sons, the first one on that list is a must-have. It’s great advice for teaching your kids how to stay out of trouble in the first place and how to deal with confrontation.

The two books by Ray Kurzweil are life changers, at least for me. The Singularity book really hit home on what directions technology is likely to take. It’s very compelling. 

The Transcend one has opened my eyes to certain dietary supplements that my wife and I have started taking with very positive results so far.