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Attending the ALA event at Loganberry in January to hear the Newbery awards reminded me of my goal to read all the Newbery Medals and to sample the more interesting Newbery Honors, so I loaded up February with Newberys. Many… (read more)

My curiosity in a wide range of topics shows up in my reading lists. I’m not always able to explain why something is on the list, but I’m working on doing better since I believe the “why” can be relevant… (read more)

I’m reading two other books on the “whitespace” in organizations at the moment when I came across this HBR article that I had clipped some time before. In my experience, “whitespace” in an organization is usually defined as the space… (read more)

I read much but finished little in December. Sometimes that happens—I have a tendency to have too many books going at once. Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox In an effort to better my understanding of monopolies and antitrust, I picked up an… (read more)

It wasn’t a terribly exciting reading month. In alphabetical author order: The Long Way to a small, Angry planet This was recommended to me because I so thoroughly enjoy Nathan Lowell’s space series and was trying not to read Captain’s… (read more)

I first read Stephenson’s Snow Crash in after hearing it described while attending an ICCM event in the late 1990s. It was one of those “read it now because this future is coming” books and I devoured it at the… (read more)

I read several books in September, some just for fun; two in particular touch on Democracy1 in some unique ways. One is science fiction and the other a collection of essays. I find them both valuable in that they can… (read more)