words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Time Magazine - Apr 6 Issue

›
There was a hodgepodge of insightful stuff from the latest issue of Time Magazine ... some grouped together and some that might call for fur...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

IBM People Management Articles from BusinessWeek

›
BusinessWeek Magazine featured in it's March 23/30 issue a special report titled "Game-Changing Management Ideas" . Under the...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Fast Company 2009 "50 Most Innovative Companies" List

›
Interesting stuff from the March 2009 issue of Fast Company Magazine. With Jason Kilar of Hulu on the cover, the issue contains Fast Compa...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Lamar Odom Story from Sports Illustrated

›
Even though I don't follow basketball very closely, I found really interesting the story on Lamar Odom in the latest Sports Illustrated...
Monday, March 16, 2009

"Keeping it Real" Writing from Esquire

›
Some interesting writing in the issue of Esquire Magazine ... much of it around the general theme of identity / being true to yourself and y...

Health-Care Cover Story from Time

›
Really good (and depressing) story titled "The Health -Care Crisis Hits Home" from the March 16 issue of Time Magazine . Written ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

"Healthy Aging" by Dr. Andrew Weil

›
Took me a little while to slog through it, but I just finished reading "Healthy Aging" by Dr. Andrew Weil . I previously did a bl...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Crazy Bad ESPN writing

›
I know Eric Young likely isn't on ESPN for his writing ability, but... geesh. Not quite the greatest writing contained within his Jonath...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Fiction Writing Notion

›
Not sure how entirely interesting this is to the average reader, but since I only know of four different people who regularly read this blog...

"Call of the Wild" by Jack London

›
Man, technology is so cool. I just finished reading (well, rereading as I first came across the book probably 25 years ago) "The Call o...
Sunday, March 08, 2009

Blog Topics To Date... & Forward

›
I've been thinking more and more about both what type of writing I want to do. With the way my brain works, that thinking screams out fo...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

"Day of the Writer" Cinequest Film Festival Event

›
I attended the "Day of the Writer" event yesterday in downtown San Jose and... some extremely interesting stuff. It was put on by...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

"God Save the Fan" by Will Leitch

›
Just finished reading "God Save the Fan" by http://www. deadspin .com/ founding editor Will Leitch . Pretty interesting read fro...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Customer Service Special Report from BusinessWeek

›
The March 2 issue of BusinessWeek featured it's annual ranking of the top performing companies in the all-important area of customer se...

Barack Obama's Budget & Speech to Congress

›
Really enjoyed Joe Klein's "Obama's Speech: A Tonal Masterpiece" from the latest Time Magazine. Solid stuff and the speec...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

"Triangle" by David Von Drehle

›
Just finished reading "Triangle" by David Von Drehle and found it to be an excellent work of historical writing. I've previo...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Kate Winslet Cover Story from Time Magazine

›
Very compelling piece in the latest Time Magazine on Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet . Written by Mark Harris, it's titled "Bes...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Company-Employee Relationship

›
Interesting commentary piece by Nancy Gibbs from the Feb 16 issue of Time Magazine . Titled "Married to the Job" it features Gib...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

HP Mention in Shaun White Fast Company Article

›
I wrote previously on Hewlett-Packard with a post on various and sundry media mentions back in July of last year and then a December post a...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Fast Company Investigative Piece on BPA in Plastics

›
Terribly interesting (and frightening) article in the Feb 2009 issue of Fast Company Magazine about the chemical BPA and it's impact. ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Dave
San Jose, California, United States
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.