An Army of Davids

Last week I wrote about Glenn Reynolds' book, An Army of Davids. At that time I had only heard about it. After reading about it in various blogs, though, I ordered it immediately. It finally got here Tuesday, and I've been reading it every chance I get, which isn't much. Still not finished with it (just finished chapter 2 - I've had to catch up on some book club reading first), but here's what I like up to this point:

Benefits of working from home:

". . . kids who get to watch their parents work up close - the way kids did in the pre-Industrial Revolution, cottage industry days - are likely to have a much greater appreciation of how the world of work operates. . . . At the very least, however, they'll see work behavior modeled in their presence."

On the trend away from big businesses and back to self-employment:

" . . . people who are self-employed are far more aware that there's no such thing as a free lunch and far more likely to look at the bottom line."

And also:

"The secret to success in big business and politics in the twenty-first century, I think, will involve figuring out a way to capitalize on the phenomenon of lots of people doing what they want to do, rather than - as in previous centuries - figuring out ways to make lots of people do what you want them to."

So far, I like it. It isn't the kind of reading that makes me want to stay up late to read it, but I've enjoyed reading it for awhile for the past two evenings.

An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower the Little Guy to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths

Others writing on An Army of Davids: Riding Sun, Justus For All, Winds of Change, IMAO, The Truth Laid Bear, Confederate Yankee, LaShawn Barber's Corner, Professor Bainbridge, Fausta's Blog, Right Mind, Nick's Book Blog, Rambles, TigerHawk, The Blogging Journalist