So this past week I received these books from Amazon:

• The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world by Lawrence Lessig
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler

I’m excited. I’ve already been reading Code: Version 2.0 (the updated version of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace), also written by Lawrence Lessig, and am slowly approaching its final pages.

This is the type of stuff I want to go into. I aspire to be like Lawrence Lessig and Yochai Benkler, who are Stanford and Harvard Law professors, respectively. Since around a year ago, I’ve felt like that— “cyber” and constitutional law— was my purpose (at least the secular side of things). I just wish I had more time to read these books for fun.

And… this isn’t really necessary, but here’s what my desk looks like now with those books.