The challenge was to post 7 books I love (1 per day). When Quentin set the challenge, I was stumped for a bit. There were plenty of books that I like, but are there any that I love? After a conversation with Cristyn, I brainstormed more than enough. With day 9, I draw this overlong book week to a close.
Author: P.D. Magnus
Book week, day 8?
The challenge was to post 7 books I love (1 per day). I couldn’t actually settle on a list of 7.
Book week, day 7
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 6
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 5
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 4
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 3
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 2
The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
Book week, day 1
Over on Facebook, Quentin May tagged me in a kind of internet chain letter. The challenge is to post 7 books I love (1 per day). No explanations, no reviews. Just covers.
I’m also supposed to nominate a friends to take up the challenge, but I won’t be calling out anyone by name. If you’d like to participate, consider yourself challenged.
Let’s promote literacy and a book list. (Does this promote literacy? You are, even now, reading words.)
Risky business
My paper with Dan Hicks and Jessey Wright, Inductive Risk, Science, and Values: a reply to MacGillivray, has been accepted at the journal Risk Analysis. It went from social media musing to accepted publication in just a few months.
Back in July, Dan wrote a tweet that concluded “Anyone want to write a little response with me?” Jessey and I replied that we’d be game for it. E-mails followed. We each wrote a snippet of prose. The snippets got worked together into one document, and that document went through a bunch of revisions. We used a google doc, which highlighted changes and allowed us to make comments back and forth in the document itself. Other than a few e-mails, that’s how we interacted. No realtime conversations, even via skype.
I still use LaTeX for my own writing, but the collaborative workflow of the google doc worked really well for this project.