#lazy thinking

Today’s Book of the Day is Thinking to Some Purpose, written by Susan Stebbing in 1939 (I have read the 2022 edition) and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. Susan Stebbing (1885 – 1943) was a British Philosopher. She was a brilliant exponent of analytic philosophy and was one of the founders of Analysis, a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy established in 1933. Stebbing was also the…

Promote the person who constantly shits all over accurate data... because they genuinely don't understand the systems their department runs on and aren't remotely interested in learning.

Hi mARToons fan!

  Now that Covid-19 has been around for a few weeks, it’s time to start getting creative.

  Sure, closing down shops is a good first step.

  But why not open your store where feasible but use different guidelines.

  For example, take appointments (like some private art galleries do) and let people in one customer at a time.

  When the customer leaves, give the place a wipe…

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Back to the beginning. That was slightly embarrassing. But like the idea behind this says:

We live tweet events so why don't we live blog our books? They may last longer than a Premier League match or election night special, but we read them continuously and their covers bound a discrete event. During their course our support veers between characters or new facts prompt us to change intellectual direction. They ebb and flow like all tweet worthy events.

Turns out this is not a subway book. The physical heft was obviously a challenge. But reading in snippets, nodding off in the early morning, and stopping mid-page at my station wasn't working out. I didn't remember much of the previous foray and so Piketty's patient explanation of ideas never found root in the sand of my mind.

So it's home reading for this. Where I can control my environment (to some degree) and regulate properly the cadence of reading. Because it's too good a book to leave publicly displayed on my shelf as an unread vanity book.

At the book office today, I read this headline:

New Amazon Low: Trying to Steal Customers Outside Indie Store

I've no love for Amazon and, yes, they play hard. But let's avoid assumptions and sloppy thinking (except my own).

So, Amazon set up a marketing kiosk outside a university bookstore. Maybe campus bookstores are different in America, but I wouldn't call them indies and the virtuous hardships that label often implies. A fairly captive audience, mark-ups on academic titles, and high margin paraphernalia with the school logo.

But my bigger problem is the phrase "steal customers". You can't steal customers. They aren't serfs. They aren't indentured purchasers. You can compete for customers. You can encourage them to shop with you. But, they're free. In the market.