ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Julie Meyer
Cofounder, First Tuesday
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
"First Tuesday is my revenge on socialism. Like the characters in Atlas, we're frustrated and need to band together - it's much more difficult to get your business done here in Europe than it is in North America. And a certain segment of the population felt reassured when Boo.com failed. But there are plenty of ground-floor opportunities to be found in Europe. First Tuesday encourages people to be independent and pursue them. And I tell my friends that I keep looking for John Galt."
William H. Calvin
Author, Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain
The Aubrey/Maturin Series, by Patrick O'Brian
Tory naval captain Jack Aubrey has to master the height of 18th-century technology - ships and celestial navigation. But I identify more strongly with his liberally educated physician-scientist friend Stephen Maturin, who went to medical school in Paris during the French Revolution. Maturin sees natural history turning into biological science, and bleed-and-purge medicine starting to learn physiology. Meanwhile, he's also an intelligence agent for the admiralty, and helps shape statecraft during the Napoleonic Wars. These books remind you what scientific ignorance and social conventions do to your mind-set and affect how you will likely be judged by the future."
STREET CRED
Kvetch of the Day
Babes in Toyland
Jog-O-Rama
The Nuonvision Revolution
Memory Gardens
Alpha and Omega
The Zero Effect
ReadMe
Music
Surroundabout
Fear of a Freak Planet
Hasta la Vista, Baby
Just Outta Beta
Master of Vine Arts
Hooked on Symphonics
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