ygsmilo: add "When Genuis Failed"
I think you will find it a interesting read. I am sure it is, but working in the related industry, I could probably write this book... Anyway, it is mostly related to the particular case while I am now concentrating on basic principles and underlying structures/processes that determine how the world got this way and what it would look like in a generation or two.
There is a lowest level of detail I can afford to concentrate on for now - just not enough time to dedicate reading a whole book on most particular events. Never fear, I am sure there is chapter dedicated to analysis of LTCM failure as a relavent exampe in one of those books.
SLO: what about creative writing....Fiction...Fantasy. At about 60-100 pages an hour (the more enjoyable the author's style, the slower) and 5-8 hours reading a day (before my son was born, much less now), there is just not much readable fiction stuff out there (that you can honor with a term "creative") I haven't read yet - or have not read in some previous book. I've accumulated tonns of SF. I still buy those once something new comes out, but it's just a day worth of reading.
Serious stuff, on the other hand, is much slower going, you can't read it in small pieces, need clear head and often even need to take notes, etc.
all that REAL world stuff is BORING What are you taking about! Very few of fiction writers have any understanding of how facinating and complex the real world really is.
miko
