Kingston 6

Bookshelf

I like to read... but i don't like to read books cover to cover... i will pick up a book and open it to anywhere and just read from there till i feel to stop. For this reason, I don't read novels. I stick to informative books and compilation books with relatively short sub-books. At any time I can be reading from four different books - maybe thats why I can't keep anything straight in my head. Anyhow, lets see what I'm reading this month (and probably next month too):

The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do, by Samantha Ettus

I Am Because We Are: Readings in Black Philosophy

The Fortune At The Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits - C.K. Prahalad

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack (almost done)

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life - Jon Lee Anderson

The strange thing is though, books are nowhere near as nice as reading the internet for information. Thats why this Google Print project is so fascinating - the potential is mind-boggling...

On another note, I read an interesting article looking at the evolution in the pricing of lobster. I'll extract two quotes to illustrate the crux of the article:
1. The armour-plated delicacy used to be super-abundant and dirt cheap, he says—so cheap that...Farmers even fertilised their fields with it, and servants would bargain with their employers to be given it no more than twice or thrice a week.
2. By the 1980s, however, abalone was selling for $30-40 a meal.

Demand and supply forces? Or marketing genius? I don't eat shellfish so I can say my opinion is not biased - I believe that to humans almost everything is marketing, we are so focused on images and opinions we forget about the real, underlying value of things. This kinda takes me back to the previous post about the difference between eastern and western religions.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius

posted by damanimichael @ 11:20 AM