Several people have emailed to alert me that Amazon.com says it’ll take “1 to 3 weeks” to get a copy of A Whole New Mind. Thanks for the heads-up, everyone. But fear not. In response to the demand (at Amazon and elsewhere), Riverhead has ordered yet another healthy printing of the book — and Amazon […]
I’m on vacation — or at least what passes for vacation for someone who is self-employed and has three children under age 9. (For instance, I can’t go anywhere without spending a little time flapping my lips about A Whole New Mind.) I’ll begin posting here again in a few days.
Today’s must-read is Paul Graham’s essay, “What Business Can Learn From Open Source.” Some choice nuggets: — “I suspect professionalism was always overrated — not just in the literal sense of working for money, but also connotations like formality and detachment. Inconceivable as it would have seemed in, say, 1970, I think professionalism was largely
The Economist examines why people laugh, a topic I explore in Chapter 8 of A Whole New Mind during a visit to an early morning laughter yoga session (pictured here) in Mumbai, India.
For more evidence of the business opportunities in the abundance gap, watch the ever-savvy Steve Case. His new investment fund, called Revolution, has just sunk $20 million into Gaiam, a company that makes and distributes yoga and Pilates videos. (Confession: Our household owns two Rodney Yee DVDs.) The investment, says today’s Washington Post, is part
Business Week blogger Stephen Baker offers an interesting refinement of one of the exercises in A Whole New Mind.
“According to the Gartner research firm, 40 percent of the earth’s population will be carrying cellphones by 2009.” (Source: New York Times, 4 Aug. 2005)
Reader Dan Brown (no, not The DaVinci Code guy) sends this photo of the labyrinth at the Bayview Medical Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. As some of you know, this labyrinth figures in Chapter 9 of A Whole New Mind. Dan has more cool labyrinthine photos on Flickr.
