I am back with my now on and now off blogging act. Ever since I stepped into this strange world of blogging, it has been nothing but a roller-coaster ride of sorts. I hate the acrimonious, the argumentative nature of blog interactions but also feel like I've been fixated only with everything that's negative about this medium. That's got to change.
I think you have to make friends first in order to enjoy the arguments with them (great, why didn't I see that before?) Otherwise everything will turn into an acrimonious debate; I squirm just watching one when I see it in a blog's comments section.
So, instead of posting long-winded comments on other people's blogs, I will try to put my blogging time to good use: pick a book that I haven't read before and blog while reading it.
I've often thought of Adam Smith's "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" as the one book that will help me ground my understanding of the world in an economic sense. But I never did get to it, until now. Now, here on this site I am going to blog as I read this book chapter by chapter.
More details shortly.
Are you the same blogger who once wrote about “Professor Kingsfield Goes to Delhi: American Academics, the Ford Foundation, and the Development of Legal Education in India” by Professor Jayanth Krishnan of William Mitchell College of Law?
Posted by: gaddeswarup | March 17, 2007 at 02:54 AM
Swarup - Yes. I thought we had a nice discussion on that thread at that time. Trust all's well with you down under?
Crazyfinger
Posted by: Crazyfinger | March 17, 2007 at 05:28 AM
My reply disappeared; here is another along similar lines.
It is nice to see this kind of activity; as a mathematician said "Go to the masters, not their pupils". By the way P/J. O'Rourke has a nice review of the book. I thought of doing some thing similar with "Mother Nature" by Sarah Hrdy but am going on to catch up with other things. I do not seem to understand much except once in a while in terms of evolution (about which I know little).
I am busy with babysitting and cooking ( I have a granddaughter now. Her mother Lalita is going back to work for two days a week. Lalita says that she can run the country if she can sleep 6 hours a week). I try to catch up with various topics when I can.
Posted by: gaddeswarup | March 17, 2007 at 04:50 PM
My reply disappeared; here is another along similar lines.
Sorry, entirely my fault. I was "fidgeting" with getting my older posts (including comments) back online. Now it should all be prim and proper and this blog is the BEST EVAR:-)
Seriously, believe Lalitha. Mothers are entirely capable of such thankless jobs as running the country and raising children, while we fiddle with invisible hands and dead thinkers. How did we ever get this far, I wonder sometimes...
Crazyfinger
Posted by: Crazyfinger | March 17, 2007 at 05:03 PM