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Latin American Reading Lite

Can't believe that I'm in Beantown with two games in the regular season left, everything up for grabs, and the Bosox and Yanks playing a mile away in Fenway—as I board a plane to Santiago. (Our lucky pal Erik will be at Sunday's finale, and doubtless report—if the right side wins. His absurd excuse for "indulging myself" is that it's his wife Annette's birthday—sure, Erik.) In a lesser vein, I'm indulging myself on this week's trip (the Big Three: Santiago, Buenos Aires, Nashville) with non-fiction. Four on the platter: The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, by John Battelle; The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth, by early PayPal employee Eric Jackson; What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, by John Markoff; and Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human, by Joel Garreau. I expect all of them will read like sci-fi—except that they've come true or are coming true—and are indeed "changing everything."

Tom Peters posted this on 10/01/05.

Comments

Great titles Tom - maybe there should be one called "Yes we used to work in places called offices" :-)

Posted by Trevor at October 1, 2005 4:32 PM

"Did" PayPal book on my just completed Miami-Santiago flight. Whadda read! SciFi + Speed of a novel!

Posted by tom peters at October 2, 2005 8:16 AM

Somehow I bought 30 new books last week - I must though fiqure a way to get authors to send to me for review! Rad Ev I scanned at Costco - the body/mind as divine gift is so much fun to tweak and enhance - goal to stay at it and collect the federal pension for 100 years!

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