Cleaning up my room and thought I’d cast some light on the inner workings of my life by inventorising the stuff on my bedside tables.
- Yesterday’s and today’s Fin Review (both unread)
- Annabel Crabb’s Quarterly Essay about Malcolm Turnbull (unread)
- “I Am Charlotte Simmons” by Tom Wolfe (unread)
- An issue of The Economist from a few weeks ago (partially read)
- June’s issue of The Monthly (unread)
- Last month’s issue of The Monthly (partially read)
- Q2 2009 McKinsey Quarterly (read, enjoyed)
- Vanity Fair from last year that has Giselle on the front cover (read)
- Vanity Fair from last year that has Carla Bruni on the front cover (read)
- Alice Shroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett (interesting chapters read)
- A glass of champagne left over from last weekend (partially consumed)
- “House of Cards” by William Cohan (read several times)
- A drunkenly constructed full-page illustration of the difference structures behind cash CDOs vs synthetic CDOs
Clearly I need to spend less time thinking I am clever and buying interesting publications, and more time actually reading them.
