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- May 6th, 2008
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Wednesday linkfest
- PBS miniseries: Carrier. Fascinating 10 hour show that explores what life is like on the U.S.S. Nimitz. A carrier off the Persian gulf in 2005. Hits on management, morale, morals, work, design, you name it.
- Interview with Vint Cerf, a father of the Internet. Note his dispelling of an innovation myth.
- You’re an author, me too! On the increase in authors and decrease in readers.
- List of 50 best cult books. Surprised Ender’s game didn’t make the list. That was the underground book only the hip geek kids (is that an oxymoron?) were reading in college in the early 90s.
- The best advice I ever got. List of short interviews with Tina Fey, Larry Page, Tony Robbins, and more.
4 Responses
- Working Girl - May 7, 2008 at 3:03 pm #
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Everyone wants to write a book.
No one wants to read (or, worse, buy) a book.
How did things get like this?
- Andrew - May 8, 2008 at 9:44 am #
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Spot on with Ender’s Game, I think it was even too geeky for the people who put the list together. BTW if you never read all the other books in the series, highly recommended.
Links to this article
- Top 50 Cult Books « The Pursuit of a Life - May 18, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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[...] & Entertainment , Writing Tags: Cult Books, Telegraph From the London Telegraph, via Scott Berkun by way of Jim Bullock, there’s a list of the “Top 50 Cult Books”. They [...]
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Hi Scott! I think you’d also enjoy Malcolm Gladwell’s latest New Yorker piece “In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?” Lots of the ideas received full coverage in your book, but Gladwell’s also a superb writer and some of his anecdotes are great.