Lab Sink Blog

The CEO of Red Nova Labs, Dan Miller, wrote an interesting blog post entitled, “Why I Hate Reading Books.” Immediately I thought of Ray Bradbury and that haunting line he wrote nearly sixty years ago; “It was a pleasure to burn.”

This has to be the strangest collection of Sweet Linkage I’ve put out so far. That’s a reflection of the diverse folks we have here at RNL sending along links, and you’ll also see my obvious bias towards sports and KU sports, in particular, this week.

Whenever I tell people about my career path – from newspapers to a startup web marketing company – the response has become pretty predictable: “Makes sense. Newspapers are f#@%ed.”

Once upon a time there was a lumbering Giant. He lived among the industrious peasants of a quaint village. He was a helpful Giant. But he aslo had a voracious appetite, and he was kind of a jerk.

Red Nova Labs hosts Venture Fridays meetups every other week, where like-minded entrepreneurs, gamers and geeks gather to share laughs, liquor and lament. I was unable to attend one Venture Friday, so a gentleman left a 200-page manuscript for me to read. That is what prompted this deeply thought-provoking blog post. How do I tell this guy I won’t read his manuscript simply because I hate to read?