Comments on: On the grazing habits of the post-scarcity culture vulture http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Darren T http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/comment-page-1/#comment-25742 Darren T Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:09:06 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7179#comment-25742 Life being the finite thing it is, I'm actually finding myself grazing less and focusing more on those authors whose work I believe I will have a higher propensity to enjoy. Not that I'm averse to sampling a wider variety of work, but more and more I'm finding that the opportunity cost of investing the requisite reading time in something that eventually turns out to offer a very low satisfaction-return is just too high. So I'm most likely sticking to my faves, for the foreseeable future and keeping my ears open for *particularly* strong recommendations for new material from highly-trusted sources as I go... Life being the finite thing it is, I’m actually finding myself grazing less and focusing more on those authors whose work I believe I will have a higher propensity to enjoy.

Not that I’m averse to sampling a wider variety of work, but more and more I’m finding that the opportunity cost of investing the requisite reading time in something that eventually turns out to offer a very low satisfaction-return is just too high.

So I’m most likely sticking to my faves, for the foreseeable future and keeping my ears open for *particularly* strong recommendations for new material from highly-trusted sources as I go…

]]> By: Tom Marcinko http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/comment-page-1/#comment-25731 Tom Marcinko Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:44:52 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7179#comment-25731 I try to keep a perfect balance between genre and mainstream, light and serious, fiction and nonfiction. Alfred Bester's Pi Man is my role model, all right. Norman Mailer said that when you read only an author's best work, you deprive yourself of the pleasure of enjoying him at his worst. That's the downside of grazing. Nevertheless, I'm doing more grazing, life being the finite thing it is. Oh, and whatever else I'm doing, I almost always think about all the other things I could be doing. Now, as for music... I try to keep a perfect balance between genre and mainstream, light and serious, fiction and nonfiction. Alfred Bester’s Pi Man is my role model, all right.

Norman Mailer said that when you read only an author’s best work, you deprive yourself of the pleasure of enjoying him at his worst. That’s the downside of grazing.

Nevertheless, I’m doing more grazing, life being the finite thing it is.

Oh, and whatever else I’m doing, I almost always think about all the other things I could be doing.

Now, as for music…

]]> By: Walter Sear http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/comment-page-1/#comment-25724 Walter Sear Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:33:40 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7179#comment-25724 I'm still just trying to read faster... I’m still just trying to read faster…

]]> By: JustinP http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/comment-page-1/#comment-25700 JustinP Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:47:56 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7179#comment-25700 I've sworn allegiance. But not to one specific subgenre. It's more like a list or wordcloud from IMDB - the more boxes are ticked, the more likely I am to read something. Urban, games, post-cyberpunk, unreliable narrators, non-Western settings, alternate history, "flawed," political, detectives, "challenging," symbolism, non-linear, etc. etc. I’ve sworn allegiance. But not to one specific subgenre. It’s more like a list or wordcloud from IMDB – the more boxes are ticked, the more likely I am to read something.

Urban, games, post-cyberpunk, unreliable narrators, non-Western settings, alternate history, “flawed,” political, detectives, “challenging,” symbolism, non-linear, etc. etc.

]]> By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2009/04/29/on-the-grazing-habits-of-the-post-scarcity-culture-vulture/comment-page-1/#comment-25694 Dave Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:09:20 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=7179#comment-25694 I do have the volume problem, but it helps that "[(1 - \epsilon)] of everything is crap." I do have the volume problem, but it helps that “[(1 - \epsilon)] of everything is crap.”

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