These days I am online an awful lot. Too much, arguably. If you’re reading this you’re probably a Web addict too. Or misguided. Or bored. Either way, you shouldn’t be reading this blog post. Do yourself a favor and close the browser window right now.
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Still here? OK, since you’re clearly beyond recovery, I thought it might be useful to share with you the tools and process I use while browsing.
In a post last Friday I mentioned Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat”. This Monday, his book won the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. (Apparently first reported in Pravda, of all places; how ironic.)
I finally finished reading it this morning. Interesting, and good work, but what a rambler. It’s as if he took speed and babbled into a microphone for three days, directly transcribing his soliloquy into print. I’d love to hear him talk sometime.
I just finished reading “The Shadow of the Sun”, a book written by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapucinski and published in 1998. It’s a collection of essays about Kapucinski’s years living in and travelling Africa, from 1957 onwards. Erik Silmberg recommended it to me, along with another book “Imperium” by the same author.
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