Books, books, and more books

If someone has no idea what present to get me, they wouldn't go wrong with a gift card to Barnes & Noble or Amazon. I received a Barnes & Noble gift card for my birthday, and I used it immediately yesterday.

The first book on my list just came out: Protocols by Andrew Huberman, PhD. This book covers topics that are catnip for biohackers, even though Huberman eschews the term in his introduction.

"You'll also notice from just these few short paragraphs that I eschew the whole notion of 'biohacking.' A hack is a shortcut that involves leveraging something toward a typically unrelated goal, like jury-rigging a paperclip and tape to fix broken glasses. Hacks are never long-term solutions. The protocols in this book are the opposite of hacks."

Andrew and Dave Asprey would seem to disagree on the definition of a hack; Dave adapted it from computer hacking. Regardless of the disagreement, I look forward to updating my knowledge with the latest scientific research.

I didn't have any other books on the agenda, so I could wander through the bookstore with an open mind and stop when I felt called to a book. This happened with a book called The Gene Keys, by Richard Rudd. It seems to synthesize various Human Design-like paradigms for discovering one's soul purpose, divined through one's birthdate. Who knows whether it will resonate with me, but I was called to give it a shot.