I think I must be channeling my grandfather, economist Robert Pettengill, as I’ve been reading a ton of economics lately. As I’ve been talking with a number of my friends and colleagues about my recent readings, I’m gonna try and profile most of the books I’ve read lately…

While never lacking for self confidence, Steven Landsburg has started to believe his own hype, and while it makes for an interesting read, its hard to take his arguments too seriously. In his latest More Sex is Safer Sex, there are definitely some interesting arguments, and its a book titled to fly off the shelf, but this is a far cry from his seminal work, The Armchair Economist. To give you a taste of Landsburg style, the argument that is the title of the book goes as follows…

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So, I’ve been on a bit of a non-fiction kick of late, and I thought I’d like to catalog my thoughts, if only to make them a bit more lucid to myself. I just finished reading Dreaming In Code by Salon.com cofounder Scott Rosenberg. He provides some interesting analysis on the development of software. Since I’m in the midst of a development project myself, its given me a lot to think about. I’ll spare you a detailed review, as you could get that from the amazon link below, but I did want to talk about a couple of interesting ideas I ran across.

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