Here’s freakonomics ( bagel guy’s solution ) possible application to p2p network mess. Link: Paypal and RIIA

This is my third book of the week . After a pretty long hiatus, I have gone on a book binge. Freakonomics , another very popular book among the reader community turned out to be like a novel with a BIG difference. The difference being that of using data to show interesting results to interesting questions. The book as such has no underlying theme, but only urges the readers to ask a lot of questions and then use data to challenge some of the conventional wisdom in the society .

I came across umpteen references to this book from various sources, my friends, my mentors, other popular books. Jim collins mentioned in his book, fast company and business 2 also mention this as a must have on any body’s book shelf, seth godin,avc, also give an abundant praise ..a whole host of people seem to be fascinated by the content of the book. Last weekend I managed to lay my hands on to this book.

One of the finest books I have ever read.This book is an inspiring story of Lance armstrong whose story moves around triumph, tragedy and transformation. At the age of 24, he becomes a sporting legend and very soon he finds himself affected by testicular cancer. Docs say that his survival rate is 40% . The book’s primary portion covers the way in which he battles the cancer and comes back to participate the Mother of all races.

Came across a site Backpack.com, which will allows me to store all sorts of lists .It is also rss enabled. Now I can get rid of Excel sheet where I used to store my To-Do list and carry it to whichever machine I went to.. Slowly I get a feeling that day is not near where everything will be on web. delicious, flickr, backpack are just the early indicators I guess