Recent reading

Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo

This fact means that we find ourselves on earth at a unique time with the extraordinary challenge of managing and navigating the headwinds of commodity shortages that the world faces over the next two decades. At present we are ill prepared to contend with this eventuality, yet the challenges we face go beyond our living standards to the survival of the planet as we know it. This fight is about life or death.

 Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead

When Martha could not write, when what she called lockjaw of the brain paralyzed her for week after week, or when she read back what she had written and decided it was worthless, she despaired—not only of herself as a writer but as a person, a friend, a human being. She felt herself to be literally pointless and would sit brooding, disconnected, haunted by the futility of the human condition.