Saturday, June 23, 2012

Excellent Investigative Writing - Harden on North Korean Prison, Friel on Unsolved Murders & Keefe on Drug Cartels

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Three fairly recent pieces of writing I've seen share the commonality of being extremely well done work on painful topics. Stories were ...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

"The $100 Startup" by Chris Guillebeau

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I recently finished reading The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau and thought it an excellent book about starting a business. This is the s...

Writing on Fathers - by Tommy Tomlinson & Baxter Holmes

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Today being Father's Day, it seems only right that I've seen two great pieces of writing by sons about their fathers. The first was ...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Businessweek writing - Ashlee Vance on TechShop, Brad Stone on Amazon & other pieces of note

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It's been close to a month since I last posted on Businessweek writing and there's since been one feature and a number of smaller ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Excellent ESPN Writing: by Saslow, Jones, Thompson, Friend & Wickersham

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There's been a few pieces from ESPN over the past month that stood out as excellent writing on interesting topics. The June 11 issue of ...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

"The Art of Non-Conformity" by Chris Guillebeau

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After learning about it from The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (which I enjoyed quite a bit ), recently finished reading The Art of Non-C...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Esquire & GQ features: by Chris Jones, Jonathan Segura & Drew Magary

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There were a few feature stories in the latest issues of GQ & Esquire that stood out as particularly interesting and worth rememberin...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

"Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon

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Started and finished (about an hour cover to cover) yesterday the tremendously interesting book Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon . Kleo...
Monday, June 04, 2012

"One Shot at Forever" by Chris Ballard

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Finished yesterday reading One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Chris Ballard and found ...
Saturday, June 02, 2012

Most Intriguing People on the "Time 100 Influential" List

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The Time "100 Influential People in the World" issue published April 30th was of course populated with a veritable who's who ...

Business Topics of Interest (& Companies) Written On So Far

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Since self-publishing a few months ago my blog compilation book , I've been thinking about its content... basically ruminating on what e...
Friday, June 01, 2012

"I Suck at Girls" by Justin Halpern

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I recently finished reading I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern and thought it a good book, not great, but pretty good. Halpern previously w...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Avengers by Joss Whedon

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It's been a while since my last blog post on a movie ( posted on Inception in July 2010 and sort of posted on The Social Network in Oc...

"The Man Who Quit Money" by Mark Sundeen

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Finished a few days ago reading The Man Who Quit Money and found it a thought-provoking book. It's written by Mark Sundeen and a biogr...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Neil Gaiman Commencement Address & Wisdom Imparted

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I came across recently a commencement address by writer Neil Gaiman to graduates from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and it...
Monday, May 21, 2012

"The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferriss

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I recently finished reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss ... good book, solid basic ideas and a seemingly endless number of additiona...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Writing on Family: by Skip Hollandsworth, Don Waters & Karl Taro Greenfeld

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Two pieces of writing I've seen lately struck me as profound work that both trafficked in the topic of family... and made me think of a ...
Friday, May 18, 2012

The Ethereal Nature of Stock Valuation & Much Corporate Work Activity

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Lately I've been ruminating a bit on the concepts of corporate work and stock valuation ... specifically how each can too easily becom...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Businessweek Feature Stories: on Jay Heinrichs / DNA Fold Manufacturing / 3D Printing / Manufacturing Efficiency / Clayton Christensen

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There's been a number of interesting feature stories to mention from Businessweek lately. From the Mar 19 issue, Peter Heller wrote ...

Chris Ballard Book Signing for "One Shot at Forever"

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Attended last night a reading and book signing with Chris Ballard , author of (among other titles) the just released One Shot at Forever: A ...