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About schoultz

CEO of Fifth Factor Leadership - Speaker, consultant, coach. Formerly Director, Master of Science in Global Leadership at University of San Diego; prior to that, 30 years in the Navy as a Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) officer.

Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

Posted on January 1, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Sci Fi Reading Group – when I offered to bring in a friend of mine who is currently in Astronaut training with NASA to discuss it. Summary in 3 Sentences: The book takes place … Continue reading →

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The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel

Posted on January 1, 2024 by schoultz

Why this book: My wife read it several years ago and never quit insisting that I read it. She’d gifted it to our kids. Summary in 3 Sentences: At age 20, an  unusually intelligent, but socially introverted young man decided … Continue reading →

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On Great Fields – the Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, by Ronald White

Posted on December 22, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book:This is the second biography I’ve read of Joshua Chamberlain.  I was so impressed with what I’d read about him in Killer Angels, and how he was portrayed in the movie Gettysburg. Also West Point chose him as … Continue reading →

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I Robot, by Isaac Asimov

Posted on December 10, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club Summary in 3 Sentences: These are a series of stories told in an interview many decades in the future, with a woman at the end of her career as a robo-psychologist … Continue reading →

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Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

Posted on November 27, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group.  Initially suggested by my daughter who said she was reading it with her husband, so Mary Anne and I wanted to join them, so we suggested it to our reading group which … Continue reading →

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Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

Posted on November 21, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book:  Selected by my Science Fiction Book Club – as one of the classics which anticipates the future development of a Metaverse. Summary in 4 Sentences:  The time frame is the 2040s and a Metaverse-like virtual world has … Continue reading →

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A Quiet Cadence, by Mark Treanor

Posted on November 21, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my SEAL book club, largely on the recommendation of Gen Jim Mattis. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Written in the first person from the perspective of a young man from a working class familywho had been … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee

Posted on October 16, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my litrature reading group. Coetzee is a Nobel Prize winning author and the only author to win the Booker Prize twice. Summary in 3 Sentences:  Set in an unnamed “empire”, presumaly in the 19th century, that … Continue reading →

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Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens

Posted on September 27, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my SEAL Reading group as our next selection Summary in 3 Sentences:  This is a coming of age story of a young girl grwoing up  isolated in a shack in the marshes on the coast … Continue reading →

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani

Posted on September 24, 2023 by schoultz

Why this book: Selected by my literature reading group. Two of us were about to go on an expeidition-hike in the Dolomites with NOLS, and this book was on the recommended reading list for this hike.  Summary in 3 Sentences: … Continue reading →

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