Relax wuss, they are the tears of joy. Every now and then I look at that new business book just to realize that I will only get a few pages worth of insightful and original thought from hundreds of pages of fluff. Even worse is realizing that there is no book for what you need – Longhorn Server. Such was the case yesterday when I looked at a few books on productivity and management and couldn’t find an original thought as I paged through them….. so in disappointment and on the way out of B&N two little words caught my eye.. “Intelligent Design” – quite appropriately these words were a subtitle of an even more genious book: The Darwin Awards.
The Darwin Awards is a very popular series of books that has appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list several times. The premise of the book is to make fun of people that die in a spectacular, self-inflicting way. The tagline is “The Darwin Awards pays homage to those who improve our gene pool… by removing themselves from it.” – the subtitle is even better “All-new tales from the shallow end of the gene pool.”
This is a comedic book and just what the doctor ordered when you spend most your day dealing with people, to paraphrase the author, who would do IT industry a great service by removing themselves from it.
For the less coherent, more grammatically correct realtime insight, follow me on Twitter at