Saturday, November 28, 2009

Book Review - "Borrowing Brilliance" by David Kord Murray

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Just finished reading "Borrowing Brillance" by David Kord Murray ... which I heard about when it was reviewed here in BusinessWe...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Blog Topics List: Redux Part Duex... Stuff of Interest & Authors Enjoyed

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After doing a "blog inventory" post a few days ago (and thinking about the helpful comment made to said post ), I wanted to follo...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Austin Murphy SI Story on South-Central Florida H.S. Football

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Really good story from the latest issue of Sports Illustrated that I was surprised to come across. What was of such interest to me wasn...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Blog Topics List: Redux

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I've posted several times previously with statistics about the blog posts done here, but I think with this post, I want to start to delv...
Monday, November 23, 2009

BusinessWeek Report on Startup Ventures

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Interesting feature in the Nov 23 BusinessWeek issue. Titled "World's Most Intriguing Startups" , it details some of the comp...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Helicopter Parenting Piece from Time

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Might not appeal to all, but as a parent of two (man, that sounds wierd), I found intriguing the the cover story from the latest Time Magazi...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fort Hood Domestic Terrorist Piece from Time Magazine

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Solid cover story in the latest Time Magazine on Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan . Written by Nancy Gibbs , "Terrified or Terrorist?...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Book Review - "Where Men Win Glory" by Jon Krakauer

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I recently finished reading “Where Men Win Glory” by Jon Krakauer and found it to be pretty powerful. The book is on former NFL standout a...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Peyton & Other Stories from Sports Illustrated

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Several pieces of note from the latest Sports Illustrated . Leading into the annual epic battle between New England and Indianapolis, the co...
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...