Reading
I heard Laura Nichol Speak last week in Pittsburg at the meeting of The Association of Theological Schools. She is a business consultant from Houston. Excellent presentations. This reading list is from the Rios Advisors website.
Ebooks versus paper
See this article which appeared in the Financial Times “Ebooks vs paper” by Julian Baggini.
Basketball
Really like what NBA commissioner Adam Silver did during the draft for Baylor’s Isaiah Austin. Just days earlier Austin received news from doctors that he had a disease which would prevent him from ever playing competitive basketball. Here Silver announces that the NBA has “drafted” Austin.
Resources
From Duke’s Faith and Leadership, Laura Nichol has written a fine piece “Rethinking capital – its more than money.”
Adolescents/Young Adults
Jan Hoffman recently had an interesting piece in The New York Times entitled “Cool at 13, Adrift at 23.”