One of Microsoft’s new CEO’s strengths? He doesn’t finish business books…
Tweet When Microsoft’s new CEO was announced last week, there was a great deal of commentary about his – doubtless very carefully crafted – i...
Tag: reading
New technology boosts the old
Tweet As cheerleaders for incumbent media often point out, the old is rarely replaced by the new. Newspapers weren’t killed by radio, radio wasn’t k...
We don’t just read novels, we live them
Tweet A neuroscience research project suggests that when we read novels we create a connection with the protagonist, a change that is visible in fMRI brain scan...
Tools and distraction
Tweet Despite having at least four other devices with Kindle apps on them at any given moment at home or work, my reading weapon of choice is the Kindle Paperwh...
Maria Popova and life as “a reader who writes”
Tweet When I look at Maria Popova and her work on Brainpickings, I feel admiration, inspiration and a little jealousy. She takes something that is important to ...
Why I finish books
Tweet Living with ebooks, as I have been since I bought my first iPad a few years back, has changed my reading. It’s also given me more ways of understand...
Hi-fidelity reading
Tweet The paperback book I am reading right now is The Big Sleep and Other Novels, by Raymond Chandler. It’s a lovely Penguin Classics imprint, thick and...
Holiday reading
Tweet In case you are looking for some ideas about what to read in the remainder of the summer, here are the books that have tickled my fancy over the summer mo...
Liked Links
Tweet Some of the links I’ve read recently… How we collaborate is more important than who collaborates – Ben Malbon of Google Creative Lab mak...
A gaming layer on reading (and everything else for that matter)
Tweet Prompted by a lot of people (Rockjimford and Matt Bagwell especially) I finally got around to watching the Seth Prietbatsch TEDx talk about building a gam...