Reading is an essential ingredient. Comes easy to me.
Back in J-School, we were required to read five daily newspapers from five metro area daily, partly to learn how papers differed, partly to see how stories were differently treated, partly to "stay informed" on current events. Can you imagine three years of that. To this day I still do it.
In my magazine career, about as competitive as you can get I think, I read my own property and each of my competitors cover to cover for the same reasons...it just so happened that 15 years of that career was in high tech and I got hooked.
For someone outside the industry, it would be daunting, as I gather you have found. For an investor, there's not just the tech press, there's the financial press as well (though I confess I spend little time there, preferring as do you, discussions like this instead).
I've finished the Tornado...230 pages and I just got it yesterday. As I said earlier, for me, it read like a thriller. That guy Moore has really got a handle on this stuff. I felt, while reading, that he was talking to ME! One thing sure, I didn't get it all the first time through. A month, a week, or two from now, I'll be reading it again. |
