(I’ve realized I need to deal with a much-too-high interrupt rate at work, in part by ensuring I take out a bit of time for leisure. Here’s an entry I started in April.)
Over the past few years, my reading rate has climbed; perhaps I’ve unwittingly dropped a periodical, or maybe I’m getting back to splitting my reading time [...]
It’s Sun’s U.S. manufacturing shutdown, so I’m getting caught up on reading and household repairs. In addition to last week’s work reading, I read two other business/investing books:
Jeffrey Zygmont’s The VC Way, which was interesting (but didn’t live up to its subtitle). Mostly structured stories about venture capital, and its role in the [...]
The book from my father’s Festschrift, From Orthography to Pedagogy, Essays in honor of Richard L. Venezky has been published and the essays are wonderful. Prepaid copies can be ordered from the above link for $39.95.
Mark Kurlanksy, Cod: a biography of the fish that changed the world, 1997. [Paperback published by Penguin.]
A short book on the role of (mostly) Atlantic cod, which, beyond being yet another species-so-abundant-we-couldn’t-help-but-nearly-extinguish-it, was apparently the seventeenth century ocean-crosser’s equivalent of interstate service areas (in that great distances could be travelled with comparatively convenient [...]
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