Archives for the 'Personal' Category
On the Pleasures of Re-Reading vs. Blogging
On a recent road-trip with my eight-year-old daughter, H, we visited with a favorite former student of mine, Y, who is now a high-test corporate attorney. We met at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble and as we wandered, picking up fresh books for H, Y mentioned that she never re-reads novels, always preferring something new. [...]
15 Books
[Cross-posted from Facebook because ultimately I realized that there was nothing TOO personal here... with the possible exception of #5...] I saw my old friend Debbie Ginsberg get tagged with this and read her list with fascination. Coincidentally, I’d been thinking along these lines just last night when I found myself picking up book #1 [...]
Terrific paragraph on playdates from Dooce…
Not fall on the floor funny, but funny… “It’s been a few months since Leta’s had a play date, and we sort of forgot how that one extra little body can increase the blast radius of destruction by about a thousand percent. Afterwards there were toys sitting in the middle of the room that we [...]
Short Post on Ad Juxtaposition: Jack Kemp Obit with Facebook, BlackBerry
News of former GOP stalwart Jack Kemp’s passing after a long bout with cancer hit yesterday, and this morning I clicked a link to an article about this on Time.com and found a banner ad for the new Facebook application on BlackBerry taking up the prominent 3 o’clock position. I took a big screenshot that [...]
Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?
What explicit business strategy books have you read lately (or ever) that were worthwhile and why were they worthwhile?
