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Gel speaker update: Stephen Bauman
Jun 16, 2006
My friend and past Gel speaker Stephen Bauman Gel '03 has just published Simple Truths: On Values, Civility, And Our Common Good, a timely book about simplicity and mindfulness in this age of information overload. I hope it does well.
From a Chicago Sun-Times article interviewing Steve:
"There are simple truths to which we all have access and these truths are lost in the clutter of our day and age, in the clutter and content of our information and everything that bombards us," Bauman told me. "People are exhausted from it."
I'm overwhelmed, I told him. And not just with tasks to do. The sheer volume of ideas and issues and urgent needs -- personal and societal -- and incessant conversations and noise of this American life are simply draining if you attempt to engage them intellectually, emotionally or spiritually. People are looking for a restful moment. They're searching for something simpler than this.
More info, and audio excerpts of the book, at stephenbauman.org.
(For New York readers, note that there's a book signing on this Wednesday, June 21 at Borders at Park Ave and 57th Street, 7pm-9pm.)
