Over boeken, literaire reflecties en het web van literatuur, door Niek de Greef. Werner Herzog, Paul Theroux, V.S. Naipaul en meer. Nederlandse en Engelstalige boeken.
I am reading The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It contains bold aphorisms in a concrete style.
Technology is at best when it is invisible.
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
I wrote about one of Taleb’s better known books, Anti-Fragile, here.
I am reading Photowork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, edited by Sasha Wolf. It is an instructive little book for the photographer. The answers to the questions about style and genre are especially revealing. There are hardly any photographers who care about style and genre. Many reject the concepts. Fun for analysts, in retrospect, at best. Certainly, these are not things the photographer should be concerned with while doing the work. Before you know it, they become self-imposed creative constraints.
I read The End of Eternity (Het Einde van de Eeuwigheid) by Isaac Asimov. I never got around to Asimov. It’s pretty good. No literary frills. A square story that stands.
Your work must stand out. Seth Godin’s Purple Cow idea.
I should remember that.
How can you organize your life as self-employed and earn enough to do what you are good at and love?
In this free book, – ISMM – the Incredible Secret Money Machine – Don Lancaster explains how to achieve this. The examples in the book are outdated, but the principles are still current. The book is also very readably written.
