Leonidas Travel Blog

US 🌍 Travel Sep 10, 2022 · 7 min read

Downtown Houston Texas & Giant NASA Rockets

By May of 2021, I had lived in Mexico City for a full year, and managed to avoid most, if…

MX 🌍 Travel Apr 19, 2019 · 4 min read

After a brief lay-over in Mexico City, I arrived in the Colima Airport, and took a 30 minute taxi to…

🌱 Self-Help 📖 Book Review Apr 22, 2015

This book is for pure, artistic, metaphorical, and symbolic inspiration and motivation. It's well established by now in Sports Science…

🤔 Philosophy 📖 Book Review May 15, 2021

Sam Harris makes the case for science as a more reliable moral compass than religion. “If our well-being depends upon…

😄 Humor 📖 Book Review Mar 9, 2026

A philosopher’s deep dive into why those four-letter words pack more punch than any polite speech ever could. “What makes…

IN ▶️ YouTube Jul 29, 2022

🇮🇳 My incredible and chaotic journey across India! 🕌

🧬 Neuroscience 📖 Book Review Nov 20, 2012

Ray Kurzweil’s deep dive into reverse-engineering the human brain — and why our robot overlords might be closer than you…

💼 Business 📖 Book Review Feb 17, 2011

Why the best I.T. leaders aren’t the most technical — and how soft skills quietly run the show. “Out of…

🔬 Science 📖 Book Review Jul 12, 2017

My fascination with neanderthals has to do with apparently being 2.8% neanderthal myself (genetically speaking).

🌱 Self-Help 📖 Book Review Dec 26, 2015

A collection of mindfulness poems that reads more like Chicken Soup for the spiritual soul. “There is a point within…