Ben Smith’s Traffic

If you go to Amazon.com and type “Traffic,” you will find three top listings. There is a book, Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt, about how we drive the way we do. Read it. Then there is a listing for a movie starring Michael Douglas and Benicio Del Toro. If you have not watched it, then watch it. And then there is a book about Buzzfeed and Gawker by Ben Smith. Before you read it, I suggest you peruse reviews by people who worked at Gawker or Buzzfeed. And then you must check out Bob Lefsetz’s review. And then, decide if you want to spend the $25 on the book. FWIW, I did listen to the book on my way to and back from New York.

May 30, 2023. San Francisco.