Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Writing Posts Done

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After last month doing a post titled "Business Topics of Interest (& Companies) Written On So Far" , it seemed to make sense t...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Writing & Writing Process Pieces by Clay Travis, Family Business, @Bigsportswriter, Chris Jones, Jennifer Khan and Jen A. Miller

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With the topic of Writing and it's production being one of the content areas I've posted on , I've come across a slew of interes...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Esquire writing - Junod on Obama, Jones on Renner & pieces on the stock market & OLED TVs

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The August 2012 issue of Esquire had some excellent content... with one feature in the brilliant writing category and then three additional...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Time Magazine Cover Story on Military Suicides

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Very profound cover story in the latest issue of Time Magazine that brought to mind other pieces from Time on the same subject. The recent ...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Writing from latest Sports Illustrated issue - by Gary Smith, David Epstein and Lee Jenkins

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There was some really solid writing on remarkable people in the latest "Where Are They Now?" issue of Sports Illustrated . Longest...
Monday, July 09, 2012

Time Magazine Pieces - on Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts / Elon Musk / Howard Schultz

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There's been a few tremendously interesting pieces of writing from Time Magazine lately to note here. Cover story from the most recent ...

"The Startup of You" by Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha

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Following on the heels of recent good books with career guidance I've seen , LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman co-wrote with Ben Casnocha ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

"The Voodoo Wave" by Mark Kreidler

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Written by ESPN writer and San Francisco area radio host Mark Kreidler , The Voodoo Wave was an entertaining book on Maverick's in all...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Writing from Across the Web - including Michael Mooney on bowler Bill Fong & Obituary of Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld

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As I was posting earlier today on writing taken from Atlanta Magazine, The Daily Beast and FlipCollective, it occurred to me how many diffe...

Businessweek Pieces - on Workday, Nuance, MemSQL & Microsoft Surface Tablet

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There's been several pieces of Businessweek writing that stood out lately with the largest a feature by Ashlee Vance on the Pleasanton...

Profound Writing - Cooper on Coming Out, Rehagen on New Fatherhood & Dinard on a Lifesaving Event

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There's been a few different cases of excellent writing I've seen lately that all fit into the profound / important category. Most r...
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 ...