Tim O’Reilly’s blog is a constant source of thoughtful posts and interesting tech & evolving culture. His recent post on Wendell Berry really hit home for me, because here is a tech luminary writing about an English teacher, poet and agrarian philosopher whose work I discovered in college, and rediscovered during my “back to the land” years of 2000-2006.

I know of no writer other than Berry who could make the differences between poll bean cultivars seem so significant from a flavor *and* spiritual perspective, or who would traipse down to Peru to research both the indigenous cultures, their great variety of potatoes (over 90 varieties, and all tastier than our spuds) and then connect all of the above back to personal international and local politics, agriculture, lifestyle and identity issues.