Historical Archives
Over the weekend, I read Hugh MacLeod’s book, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity. He also blogs at gapingvoid.com. It was an interesting book, quite simple and direct and refreshing. There’s nothing in it that I don’t think you couldn’t figure out for yourself, but sometimes we forget the most obvious things. One…
My interests are at once focused and all over the place. I have books that are languishing and books I’ve raced through, but here’s what’s on my shelf right now: A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch. This is a study of teenagers that is now over a…
I just finished reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. It is, as Kevin Drum notes, an odd book to read. The tone makes you want to not trust Taleb, and he almost tells you not to trust him, but then his ideas make some sense. He seems prescient about the current…
One of the things I did this weekend was to finish this book. I have about 4 books going at the moment and this is the one that kind of stuck. As most of my readers know, I’m struggling with Geeky Boy’s school difficulties and I picked this book up in hopes of gaining some…
One of my areas of interest is network theory, especially as it applies to the Internet and while this book may not be about network theory specifically, it’s certainly a good demonstration of some of its principles. Bill Tancer works for Hitwise, a competitive intelligence company, meaning they look at available data and try to…
Over my vacation, I read Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. I picked this book up because Mr. Geeky and I got into an argument about driving in traffic. Specifically, he did not like the way I was driving in traffic on I95. This, as well as issues around map reading, is our main argument these days.…
Andrew Keen’s new book is meant to be controversial. He said he wasn’t even aiming for a balanced look at Web 2.0. I knew this going in, so I expected to disagree with him much of the time. And I did. But I didn’t disagree with everything. I do think there are some problems that…
I’ve mentioned my ex-boyfriend Gary McGraw, now good friend, a couple of times before. He’s an important figure in the software and Internet security world. He gives lots of talks and writes lots of books, most of which I only have a passing interest in as someone who uses the Internet and software. His latest…
Some of you may have read about or seen interviews with Leslie Bennetts, the author of The Feminine Mistake, a book that discusses the issue of women who choose to stay at home. In her book, she says that staying at home is the mistake. I first saw Bennetts on The Today Show while we…
Naked Conversations, by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble was not a good book. I wanted to like this book. I like blogging. I think businesses should open up to the idea of blogging. I’m interested in what’s going on in business blogging. But this book didn’t really add anything to the conversation. Instead it offers…
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