Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map, points out the insanely fun/bizarre text stats for books available on Amazon. You can find stats on everything from average words per sentence, to cost per word:
Text Stats is a pretty wonky page — everything from some of the “readability” indices, to overall word count, to what Amazon [...]
Supposedly, the direction in which you see the dancer spinning indicates whether you’re left or right-brain dominant. I’m pretty sure that part ain’t true - it’s just an illusion like the Necker cube - but it’s cool nonetheless.
I immediately saw the rotation as clockwise. What seemed hard for me was to get it to switch [...]
I was interviewed twice in 24 hours this week - for the Miami Herald and Conde Nast’s new mag Portfolio. Both writers mentioned to me an apparent increase in sabbatical popularity. I hope the back-to-back interviews are a sign that it’s true. The Miami Herald says:
Among the Fortune 100 Best Places to [...]
Escape 101: The Four Secrets to Taking a Sabbatical or Career Break Without Losing Your Money or Your Mind is now available!
The print version will be available in a few weeks. In the meantime you can get a nice discount and save a few trees by picking up the ebook version at the [...]
