There are some downsides to locking yourself indoors on a tight writing regimen. You don’t get enough sun, exercise or food groups. Also the endeavour comes with a certain amount of guilt if you’re doing anything but write. Anything. Even taking bath. The self-inflicted guilt is mind-boggling.
But I also miss reading.
So then I did the math. Unless something drastic happens to medical science or to my income levels, I simply will not live long enough or have enough free time to read all the books, magazines and Wikipedia entries I want to in life. It is physically impossible.
This is a depressing thought no?
But of course I do not want to depress. So please go read this bizarre New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs piece.
Alternately, my woefully neglected Instapaper RSS feed is here.
What else?
Oh yes. There are positive developments on the Cubiclenama front. But I cannot confirm it right now.
Bye.
P.S. Apologies if these little posts are clogging up your RSS feed. Things will be likewise for a while. Feel free to temporarily bury feed at sea.
The thing about being well read was explained recently here – LinkT.V.Mohandas Pai mentioned being unable to read among the primary reasons to quit Infosys Board and Exec team. Quoting from his interview
“I want to catch up on my reading. My wife has bought me a houseful of books.” Link
The man doth make a point. Retiring to read seems like the ultimate way to go no?
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With ever-increasing life-expectancy, the metaphor of ‘Retiring’ is not the same anymore. His wife could’ve given him a Kindle, instead of filling their home with dead-trees. However 17 years straight in same firm, working almost 24×7-17 years is scary.Recently MindTree’s former chairman quit at the age of 67 to start again from scratch. Same business groups, same targets ($100mn revenue in 5 years). It helps that he’s a bachelor with fewer distractions, however the man intends to work till at least 72, even after 4 decades of almost non-stop work (Took Wipro IT from $2mn to $500mn, Took MT from zero to $320mn and now starts from scratch again).If you agree with Mary Catherine Bateson’s 4-generation theory, there’s no retirement line, only the role’s change over time. Mary’s talk Link (1.5 hours audioVideo Link. She’s 73 and actively working (coming back from pseudo-retirement).
That NPR article makes the point that despite being a prodigious reader, one may only read ~6500 books in a lifetime, so better chose carefully. Also one doesn’t really want to become, say a Booker Prize Judge who have to go through 100+ books ( Booker Press release ) in few months to come with their long-list. Too much reading can also become self-defeating pretty quickly 🙂
Whatay way to go!!!
Well said!!
 Blogging counts as writing, doesn’t it?Â
You write every blog post so well. Keep the hard work going and good luck.
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