Saturday, September 11, 2010

Sports Illustrated Excerpt from Susan Casey's "The Wave"

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Was excited to see the latest Sports Illustrated cover and one of the pieces within... Noted at the top is "Surfing's Sacred Monst...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Tony Blair on three U.S. Presidents - from Time Magazine

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Following in a long line of interesting book excerpts in Time , the Sept 13 issue had an excellent one. From the former British Prime Minist...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Inc. Magazine - Zappos / TOMS Shoes / 37signals CEO... on how to hire

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Never really have been an Inc. Magazine reader, but will likely become one after seeing a couple of good pieces from the June 2010 issue. I ...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Violating Baseball's Code Piece by Jason Turbow

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Terribly interesting piece I came across on CNNSI that has to do with the concept of "baseball's unwritten rules". Titled ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Commitment. To Work?

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Heard a story from a friend of mine the other day about his boss asking whether he's "100% committed to the company" and that ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Fast Company Magazine - TED / Alex Bogusky

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Two really interesting pieces in the Sept 2010 issue of Fast Company Magazine. In "How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite" Anya ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Esquire Magazine - Sept 2010 issue

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Whole buncha stuff worth linking to from the Sept 2010 issue of Esquire ... with an additional piece from the prior issue. One of the featur...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Fast Company Magazine - Apple, Method Products & mGive

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Some interesting pieces from the latest issue of Fast Company Magazine. Most prominent was the cover story "Invincible Apple : 10 Less...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Joe Posnanski on Jets Fullback Tony Richardson

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Great story from the latest issue of Sports Illustrated . From Joe Posnanski , Made to Last is a profile of 16 year NFL veteran Tony Richar...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

"War" by Sebastian Junger

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Recently finished reading "War" by Sebastian Junger and found it be a pretty good book... with some really compelling parts inte...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

Jonathan Franzen Cover Story from Time / Access to Time Content Online

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Great cover story in the latest issue of Time Magazine ... too bad it's not easy to access (more on that later, though). Titled " J...

My Resume Updated

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Been a while so I recently updated my resume ... no real change on the places schooled or worked, but did add non-traditional (at least for ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Joe Posnanski Piece on Rafer Johnson

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Found myself to be pretty well riveted by a recent Joe Posnanski blog post on Olympic Decathlete Rafer Johnson . Titled Stories of an Extr...
Sunday, August 08, 2010

"Star Island" by Carl Hiaasen

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Just finished reading "Star Island" by Carl Hiaasen ... good writer, funny book. A perusal of the "books for adults...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The Finding of White Collar Work & Scott Belsky Creative Meritocracy Piece

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A topic I've thought quite a bit about over... I don't know, the last few years, is that of finding white collar work. My thinking o...

Time Magazine Pieces - Summer Vacation / Ford / Hyperlocal News / Other Stuff...

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Several interesting pieces from Time Magazine over the last two weeks. The Aug 2 issue cover story was "The Case Against Summer Vaca...
Friday, July 30, 2010

like to write stuff blog title description

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A bread crumb trail towards the three Rs: reading, writing & really trying to learn new stuff. Primarily made up of (A) book revi...

"Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh

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Recently finished reading "Delivering Happiness" from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh . Good book... I wouldn't call it great, but def...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

How We Value Things & Entertain Ourselves - Roger Ebert on Huck Finn vs a Great Video Game

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A few weeks ago, I did a post on reading which made mention of something that I think deserves more attention... that being a Roger Ebert ...

"Sh*t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern

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Finished reading "Sh*t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern ... funny book and totally worth the three or so hours it took to make it c...