Some of my personal inspiration
I may have mentioned these before, but just wanting to put this down quickly -- some of the people I keep coming back to as people I aspire to be, when I grow up (as it were) (yes, I know how old I am)
Julia Child
Candace Wheeler
Thomas Sowell
I've written pieces on Child and Wheeler before.
Here's the one on Child: Training Lessons from the French Chef: Being Resourceful and Making Mistakes, which ran in the July 2022 issue of the Stepping Stone, at the Society of Actuaries
The one on Candace Wheeler: Leadership Inspiration: Candace Wheeler- Bringing Beauty and Work to Women, August 2016, Stepping Stone
As for Sowell, I've written about him on my blog and in book reviews on Goodreads/Amazon:
Oct 2022: Geeking Out: Chatting with a Fellow Actuary about Writing -- I have a section about my Sowell recommendation
Aug 2021: Meep's Recommendations: Thomas Sowell, Roaring 20s, and Shostakovich
Jun 2020: Thoughts on the Passing Scene: Crazy Finance, Stupid Graphs, and Questionable Spreadsheets - scroll down and you will see it
The common theme of the three people is that they took something that many had thought the domain of elites -- French cuisine, interior decorating, economics -- and made it broadly accessible.
I look at how they did it, and I am still learning from their examples.
Julia Child
Candace Wheeler
Thomas Sowell
I've written pieces on Child and Wheeler before.
Here's the one on Child: Training Lessons from the French Chef: Being Resourceful and Making Mistakes, which ran in the July 2022 issue of the Stepping Stone, at the Society of Actuaries
The one on Candace Wheeler: Leadership Inspiration: Candace Wheeler- Bringing Beauty and Work to Women, August 2016, Stepping Stone
As for Sowell, I've written about him on my blog and in book reviews on Goodreads/Amazon:
Oct 2022: Geeking Out: Chatting with a Fellow Actuary about Writing -- I have a section about my Sowell recommendation
Aug 2021: Meep's Recommendations: Thomas Sowell, Roaring 20s, and Shostakovich
Jun 2020: Thoughts on the Passing Scene: Crazy Finance, Stupid Graphs, and Questionable Spreadsheets - scroll down and you will see it
The common theme of the three people is that they took something that many had thought the domain of elites -- French cuisine, interior decorating, economics -- and made it broadly accessible.
I look at how they did it, and I am still learning from their examples.