Friday, November 13, 2009

Employer / Employee Relationship BusinessWeek Pieces

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Two brief interesting pieces around employees and the companies they work for from the November 16 issue of BusinessWeek . The longer of t...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

BusinessWeek Cover Story on Apps

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Interesting story on apps from the Nov 2 issue of BusinessWeek . Titled "Inside the App Economy" , this piece talks about the va...
Sunday, November 01, 2009

Andre Agassi Book Excerpt from Sports Illustrated

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The latest issue of Sports Illustrated has quite the interesting book excerpt ... taken from "Open" , Andre Agassi's autobiog...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"Paris to the Moon" by Adam Gopnik

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Just finished reading “Paris to the Moon” by Adam Gopnik and didn’t love, but did enjoy it. It's a compilation of essays Gopnik wrote f...
Monday, October 26, 2009

California Profile from Time Magazine

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Interesting cover story on California from the latest Time Magazine . I've heard before the notion of California as an indicator of the...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Basketball & Joe Pa Sports Illustrated Writing

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Several good pieces in the latest Sports Illustrated about topics I didn't expect to be that drawn into. The cover image has Lebron and...

Customer Experience Pieces from BusinessWeek

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Some interesting articles from the September 26 BusinessWeek around how companies are trying to bring in and then keep customers. The cover...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Noreena Hertz & Hulu Pieces from Fast Company

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Two very good (and very different from one another) feature pieces in the November issue of Fast Company Magazine. The first was a fairly l...
Monday, October 12, 2009

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" by Alain de Botton

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I came across Alain de Botton’s “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work” from this BusinessWeek review and just finished reading this interesti...

401K Pieces from Time & BusinessWeek

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Interesting story on the concept of a 401K retirement plan in the latest Time Magazine . In his piece "Why It's Time to Retire the...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Earthquake Preparedness Section from Mercury News

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It's not necessarily good writing related stuff, but some excellent information in the San Jose Mercury News Special Section on the Lom...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Fast Company Magazine - Oct 2009 Issue

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Some interesting stuff (for various reasons) from the latest issue of Fast Company Magazine ... The NextTech feature "OnLive Goes Onlin...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

Domestic Terrorism Piece from David Von Drehle

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Some solid writing from the October 12 issue of Time Magazine . Most noteworthy was "An Enemy Within: The Making of Najibullah Zazi...
Friday, October 02, 2009

Mariano Rivera & Chris Andersen Sports Illustrated Profiles

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Two really good profile pieces in the Oct 5 Sports Illustrated . The first is by Tom Verducci and titled "Mariano Saves" about t...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

BusinessWeek Articles: Cover Story on Glock & "Change by Design"

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Pretty intriguing article in the Sept 21 issue of BusinessWeek on the handgun manufacturer Glock . I suppose it's not a shock given the...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

"Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America" by Kurt Andersen

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Just finished "Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America" by Kurt Andersen and found it to be pretty good....
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Detroit Writing from Time & Sports Illustrated

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Interesting concept from Time, Inc. that’s already resulted in some compelling writing… The idea is for Time Magazine and its affiliated pu...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Joel Stein Vaccination Column & Neil Patrck Harris Profile

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Two interesting short pieces from the Sept 28 issue of Time Magazine ... both written by Joel Stein . The first is "Neil Patrick Harris...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

"Home Ice" by Jack Falla

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Just finished reading "Home Ice" by Jack Falla and... found it a good book. I've previously read two of Falla's books......
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Joe Klein Piece on Obama & Time Arts Preview

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Some good stuff in the latest issue of Time Magazine . In his "In the Arena" column, Joe Klein wrote "Obama's Appeal: A ...