{"id":904,"date":"2004-02-18T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","slug":"book-log-cartoon-history-mismeasure-of-man-business-lessons-the-fun-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Cartoon History, Mismeasure of Man, Business Lessons, The Fun of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m a little joiner who does everything <a href=\"http:\/\/glenn5.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">glenn5<\/a> does, I&#8217;m going to start keeping track of books read this year.<\/p>\n<p>Starting January 2004, we have:<\/p>\n<p><b>The Cartoon History of the Universe Book 1 &#8211; Larry Gonick<br \/>\nThe Cartoon History of the Universe Book 3 &#8211; Larry Gonick<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Very good.  A nice synopsis, and funny.  Can&#8217;t wait to get Book 2.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Mismeasure of Man &#8211; Stephen Jay Gould<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Excellent.  A great refutation of all the folks throughout the ages who have a) tried to measure intelligence in a concrete way and b) tried to use it to prove superiority of one race\/sex over another.  Especially a smack-down of <b>The Bell Curve<\/b>, which I haven&#8217;t read.  I&#8217;ve read several of Mr. Gould&#8217;s books, and I enjoy his writing style a lot.  But the sections on the Bell Curve were the angriest I&#8217;ve ever seen him get.  Interesting.  The mathematics in the middle section lost me a bit though.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Business Lessons for Entrepreneurs: 35 Things I learned before the Age of Thirty &#8211; Mark D. Csordos<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Not a great book.  Would have made a fine article, or a chapter of another book, but mostly he didn&#8217;t have much to say, and had to stretch it quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Fun Of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town &#8211; New Yorker &#8211; Edited by Lillian Ross<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a reader of the New Yorker, although I think I should be.  I&#8217;m a huge fan of non-fiction essays (I love the Best American Essays books), and this was a fun read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m a little joiner who does everything glenn5 does, I&#8217;m going to start keeping track of books read this year. Starting January 2004, we have: The Cartoon History of the Universe Book 1 &#8211; Larry Gonick The Cartoon History &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=904\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}