ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Richard Kimball director, Project Vote Smart. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. "I feel like Santiago sometimes - he has a lot of fishing experience and spends days catching the biggest fish known in the area, a 30-foot swordfish. It pulls him out to sea, but after he drags it back sharks have reduced it to a skeleton. At Vote Smart, I'm the old man with the political background - I was a state senator in Arizona, and then ran and lost against John McCain for the US Senate in 1986. Our nonprofit service has won plenty of awards, but we just learned that 95 percent of the public has never even heard of us. People still don't appreciate all the work the young students here have done."
David Gilmour president, Tacit Knowledge Systems. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. "The biology of mothering is rich with lessons for VCs, and the positions of mother and company founder have interesting parallels. Contrary to traditional views, mothers don't want more babies - they want successful babies, and sometimes this makes them do brutal things. Infanticide is not uncommon among animals, and some birds rotate their egg-laying so that single hatchlings must compete against older, stronger siblings or die."
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