If you’re looking for a useful app to boost your productivity, I recommend iDoneThis, which I’ve used every day for the past six months. Here are three ways the app helps me get more things done: 1. It enables me to effortlessly keep track of what I’ve done and thus…

Perhaps I read too much fiction, but is it possible that someone in our government actually planned for a drone to crash land in Iran? Given what has been attempted throughout military history, the possibility is not unprecedented. Consider a maneuver by the British government in World War II that…

For centuries, men had said that human flight was impossible. But on December 17, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright proved otherwise.

Andrew Bernstein began his 2008 article “The Exalted Heroism of Alistair MacLean's Novels” as follows: Less than fifty years ago, Alistair MacLean’s novels were international best-sellers that spawned major motion pictures. Today, his novels are out-of-print in America and MacLean, once considered a “master storyteller,” is virtually unknown to an…

Daniel Wahl reviews Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity, by Jeffrey K. Liker and Timothy N. Ogden.

Daniel Wahl reviews Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson.

Examines Steve Jobs’s famous impatience, compares it to his less-well-known patience, and finds that in this area, as in so many others, Jobs breaks the mold and is worthy of praise and emulation.

Daniel Wahl reviews My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir, by Dick Van Dyke.

Daniel Wahl reviews Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, by Tony Hsieh.

Daniel Wahl reviews The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, by Jonah Keri.

Daniel Wahl reviews Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See, by Robert Kurson.

Daniel Wahl reviews The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, by Peter Godwin.

Daniel Wahl reviews A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, by Reza Kahlili.

Daniel Wahl reviews Lifting King Kong, directed by Park Geon-yong.

Surveys the history and principles that have given rise to the breathtaking competence of U.S. special operations forces, and finds that one man is primarily responsible.