Category: What I’m Reading
Posts on interesting books or blogs I am reading.
African Women and American Academics
I find myself wondering if I am the only one dismayed by the “mudwrestling” going on among Dambisa Moyo, Jeffrey Sachs and William Easterly… and others. In case you haven’t heard, Dambisa Moyo has written a provocative book on the...
Good Evolution, Bad Evolution
This post is a little off-piste for me but what is blogging for, if not to occasionally skate on or over the edges of one’s knowledge. This month is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the...
The Yin and Yang of Open
In Eric Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth, he describes a fascinating software experiment modelling the prisoner’s dilemma but not between two decision-makers (as in the classical scenario) but rather in a multi-actor evolutionary landscape in which anyone can make a...
The Birthday Innovation or Why Blog?
I think there is a compelling reason why everyone ought to blog/tweet/social network or leave some sort of digital trail. As Seth Godin puts it, the word blog is irrelevant, what’s important is that it is now common, and will...