I read too many books. Or it’s probably more accurate to say I get involved in too many books. For example, I am just finishing up “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology And the Law To Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity,” by Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig. Which I interrupted to read a novel about professional chess players called “The Queen’s Gambit,” by an old writing school teacher of mine. At the same time I am about a third of the way through a book about the Afghanistan war—the first one, the one against the Russians—called “Charlie Wilson’s War.” And I just started reading “Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage,” by Nicholas Carr, the follow-up book to his controversial article, “IT Doesn’t Matter,” published almost exactly a year ago in the Harvard Business Review.

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