is rather obvious: it consumes that attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
- Herbert Simon, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978
Thanks to Robert Darnton, the director of Harvard’s libraries, for a book about books: The Case for Books
As he wrote in Publisher’s Weekly last week: “I’ve been invited to so many conferences on ‘The Death of the Book’ during that past decade that I think books must be very much alive. The death notices remind me of my favorite graffiti, inscribed in the men’s room of the Firestone Library at Princeton University:
God is dead. –Nietzsche
Then, added in another hand:
Nietzsche is dead. –God
The book is not dead. In fact, the world is producing more books than ever before…”
Great research and great writing.
Of course, I like reading the hard copy of the magazine. I just can’t relax as much reading something online as I can reading a paper copy.
Here’s hoping magazines don’t go away anytime soon.
That’s my goal. I haven’t quite figured out how to do it yet, but I have the book: The 4-Hour Workweek. Once I finish reading it…it’s only a matter of time.
Tim Ferris is the author of the book and blog. Good stuff. (Not every blog post is up my alley. We’ve all got different tastes and tolerances and there are a couple of recent posts I’m not fond of. But I still want to read whatever he writes.)
Read the book or the blog. And good luck living more and working less.
Let me know how it goes!
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