Just kidding. The NY Times puts some frightening interesting numbers on the growth of book publishing, though:
In 2007, a whopping 400,000 books were published or distributed in the United States, up from 300,000 in 2006, according to the industry tracker Bowker, which attributed the sharp rise to the number of print-on-demand books and reprints […]
If you’re thinking of any extended travel with kids, The Wide Wide World is a blog you need to check out.
Dani, Craig, Caroline & Conor are preparing to take a year long trip around the world departing in late July 2008, and they’ve been blogging regularly about their preparations. Craig had some nice things to […]
Well, actually it’s Mark’s tropical escape, not mine, but you can check out his interview with yours truly at MyTropicalEscape.com, where we get into the nuts and bolts of Escape 101 and sabbaticals.
Mark has a real knack for tracking down and interviewing people. In my case, it was more like I stalked him, but […]
Funny how similar things happen at similar times. Not long ago I posted on the link between charity and wealth - in essence, how giving makes you richer.
Now, here comes the latest from John David Mann (You Call the Shots): The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea. And what’s it about? […]
Tim Ferriss, author of the best-selling The 4-Hour Workweek, was kind enough to post an excerpt from Escape 101 on his blog. It’s the chapter on escaping with children, one that’s particularly close to my heart after last year’s adventure in Paraguay.
So - two opportunities. The first is a free excerpt from the […]
Good news if you’re an author or publisher. Media Life magazine reports that:
…for all these different toys, these wonderful new technologies, reading tops the list of things Americans would most rather do, given the choice, and by a large margin.
Not only that, reading is higher on that list than ever. Watching TV is No. […]
A surfer has come up with an elegant, possibly provable, theory of everything. (I know this sounds like the start of an Onion article, but it’s the real deal.)
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from […]
There’s a long history in self-development and success literature of promoting giving as the path to getting. And as you’d expect, there have been naysayers all along who hold that it’s easy to give once you’ve already gotten, and that the whole theory is bunk.
Now it turns out that there really is some science to […]
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 […]
