Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Solid business writing - on Disney MagicBands, Y Combinator, NBC News & Starbucks

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Some really good recent business stories included two features from Fast Company and one each from Vanity Fair and The Atlantic. The Fast ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

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The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown was a really great book about the University of Washington rowing team that went to the 1936 Be...

Interesting Bloomberg Businessweek pieces - by Wieners, Vance, Clark & Coen

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There's been some particularly interesting writing from Bloomberg Businessweek magazine over the past few weeks including a great featur...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Solid sports writing - by Burkholder, Posnanski, Arthur, Wetzel, & Tullis

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Some recent great sports writing included a couple of pieces that that struck me as fascinating along with a few more that were really impac...

Twenty-four job searching thoughts

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After about a month ago successfully completing my first job search in over ten years, I wanted to list out what things I learned through th...

Inspirational sports pieces - on Nate Boyer, Francesca Weems & Lauren Hill

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Some remarkable sports pieces lately included a story on a 34-year-old NFL prospect, one on a sportscaster who spent several years of her ch...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Interesting business pieces - on Dropbox, Chris Sacca & Ron Conway

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There's been a few interesting pieces of business writing I've seen lately, including pieces recently published and related ones fro...

Two great pieces of rememberance

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There were two amazing recent pieces about parents remembering children who died, one written about a twin who five years ago died shortly a...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Best non-sports writing linked to in 2014

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Following up on my just posted best sports writing linked to in 2014 is the below listing of the best non-sports (and non-business) writing...

Best sports writing linked to in 2014

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I realized recently that while I did put together a book of the best business writing I've read through 2014 , I hadn't done any com...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Mooallem & Titus pieces - on end of life decisions & dealing with depression

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It's really not with the intent of closely linking them together, but two great pieces of writing I've seen recently were "Deat...

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

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Dead Wake:  The Last Crossing of the Lusitania  by Erik Larson was a good book on the British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Interesting business writing - on Sirius & Howard Stern, Disney & MagicBands and Ikea & expansion

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Three interesting pieces of recent business writing covered covered subjects across the corporate world with stories on Disney, SiriusXM, an...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Great GQ feature stories - by Paterniti & Flynn

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There's two exceptional features I've seen recently from GQ Magazine, one by Michael Paterniti and one by Sean Flynn . The Patern...

Writers on writing - by King, Sager, Jones, Sherman & Keohane

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Lately on the subject of writers and writing, there's been some great stuff I've seen lately that feels to group into a couple of ca...
Friday, March 06, 2015

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

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How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson was an interesting book with the subtitle  Six Innovations That Made the Modern World.  Johnson in th...

Great sports writing - by Moehringer, Saslow & Anderson

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Three great recent pieces of sports writing included two from ESPN and one from Bleacher Report. The larger of the two ESPN features is 12...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Bold by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

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Bold by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler was a follow up to their 2010 book Abundance (which I wrote about last year ) and it's note...

Interesting business writing - on Ive from Apple, Hoover from Product Hunt & solid business advice

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Some recent interesting business writing ran the gamut in terms of types of writing with the three pieces to note here being a blog post, a ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Writers on writing & pieces about New York Times writer David Carr

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There's been a number of great things I've seen recently on writers and writing, with a majority of them related to New York Times w...