When Seth Godin announced a series of reader meetups oriented around his new book, Linchpin, I decided right away to organize the Vancouver event. Linchpin’s themes of overcoming internal resistance and bringing a sense of art into one’s work have resonated with me as I have developed RedRovr, and I looked forward to meeting others [...]
I’m organizing a meetup in Vancouver tomorrow (June 14) around marketer Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. The Vancouver event is part of a worldwide series of meetups about Linchpin all on the same day – set into motion by Seth but organized locally by volunteers. Vancouver has the 7th largest showing worldwide (!), behind cities like [...]
William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful quantum teleportation over a distance of ten miles, while other scientists, in Maryland, announced the creation of an artificial, self-replicating genome. In this particular version of [...]
October 15, 2009 – 12:21 am
Stewart Brand is an intellectual magpie, drawing on an incredibly wide variety of sources for his new book Whole Earth Discipline. Fans of Brand will not be surprised at much of the content, as he has written earlier on similar subjects: the scope and scale of climate change, the dynamism of megacities, the controversy and [...]
January 17, 2008 – 12:15 am
Inspired by this recount of famous shed-writers, I am putting forth my own favorite hermetic book-lover story: that of Joseph Campbell spending several years in a cabin, reading for nine hours a day. Something about the unlikely combination of dedication and freedom involved in this endeavor has wedged it firmly in place at the top [...]
January 3, 2008 – 11:06 am
In advance of diving in to Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms, I’m stockpiling the links to Marginal Revolution’s excellent book forum: A Farewell to Alms, pp.1-112 Farewell to Alms, pp.112-192 A Farewell to Alms, through p.272 Farewell to Alms, final session Plus, all 59 (and counting) references to A Farewell to Alms on MR.
