Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Working... & Writing on Michael Lewis Working

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Having previously done a number of posts on work (the most involved probably being Working on the Railroad... with help from Robert Fulghum ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Cover Story on Amazon... & Other Businessweek Pieces

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Excellent cover story from the Oct 3 issue of Businessweek . Amazon , the Company That Ate the World is written by Brad Stone and details ...

Money and Related to $ Writing from Time

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Some solid writing on money, the economy and jobs in Time lately... particularly in the recent Special Money Issue . Leading off the sectio...
Saturday, October 01, 2011

Sports Illustrated Pieces: on Walter Payton, Gary Patterson & the Philadelphia Phillies

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There's been a few different feature stories from Sport Illustrated lately with really solid writing on interesting topics. For the Sep...

Moneyball Movie & Writing On It

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In what would seem to be a highly improbable trifecta, the Brad Pitt vehicle Moneyball was an excellent movie loosely based on a great boo...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Game 162 of the MLB 2011 Season & Great Writing on the Night

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Stunning, crazy, epic, redonkulous ... all words that apply to last night's events in the final game of the MLB regular season. I suppos...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

"Those Guys Have All the Fun" by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales

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Just finished reading Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales . It did drag on at time...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Tennis Writing on Roger Federer

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Lately have come across some very interesting writing on tennis star Roger Federer . The work is from a variety of different sources over a ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

9/11 10th Anniversary Writing

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Really remarkable commemorative issue of Time Magazine this past week. The special edition was published without advertising and much o...
Monday, September 12, 2011

"The Greater Journey" by David McCullough

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Just finished reading The Greater Journey by David McCullough ... didn't finish the book, just finished reading close to half-way throu...
Thursday, September 08, 2011

Inc. Magazine Speaker Event

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Recently attended a speaker panel put on by Inc. Magazine here in San Jose and found it to be pretty thought provoking. The event was title...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Esquire Writing - Scott Raab on WTC Memorial & C.J. Chivers "What I've Learned" Feature

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September 2011 issue of Esquire contained exceptional writing by Scott Raab ... as well as an interesting one page piece of musings from C....

Tommy Tomlinson Writing - for ESPN, GoodCall and Personal Blog

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In a veritable onslaught of Tommy Tomlinson content, today there was a piece of his posted at ESPN.com and interview with him on a new spor...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Time Magazine Writing - Joe Klein on Veterans, Mehmet Oz on food & Barton Gellman on Dick Cheney

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Some solid pieces from Time lately... two of them cover stories and another within the latest issue (and all of them requiring a magazine su...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Sports Illustrated Writing: Lee Jenkins & Joe Posnanski

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Couple of entertaining works lately from Sports Illustrated writers... one written for the magazine and one the website. Cover story for...

Businessweek Pieces: Double Eagle Coin, HP, Apple, Salesforce & Rachel Ray

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Some interesting pieces from the August 29 issue of Businessweek ... I find BW often has interesting features and with this edition be...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

GQ September 2011 Issue - Will Leitch on Michael Vick & Other Features

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I've not been much of a GQ Magazine reader in the past, but found the most recent issue to have some solid content as well as (at the r...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Interesting Companies Posted On

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A post that I've wanted to do for a while now has been on interesting companies and the below list represents alphabetically the busines...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Five for Writing Posts from Son of a Bold Venture Blog

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I first mentioned it in a Feb 2011 blog post and lately have thought more about the Five for Writing Series done by Chris Jones on his So...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

"Wonder Girl" by Don Van Natta Jr.

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Recently finished reading Wonder Girl: The Magnifcent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Don Van Natta Jr . Didrikson was an...