Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-30
"…the drive to uniqueness and authenticity is what we have in common." [Just an attempt to justify absence of shared experience?] #
Attention is one of the most valuable modern resources. If we waste it on frivolous communication, we will have nothing left when we need it #
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-23
http://bit.ly/3qCaYLWe "…the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us…." #
"…independence is not the essential quality of a mind or personality." #
Platon: Immediately after McCain announced his presidental bid, he celebrated in the limo by listening to Abba's "Dancing Queen." #tnyfest #
Platon: Mos Def's motto: "Trust few. [...]
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
The most popular independent bookstores in America (on Twitter)
NFI Research has compiled a list of the independent bookstores with the most Twitter followers. Powell’s of Portland comes in first, by far, with 9,880 followers as of October 13, 2009. New York stores dominate the list, and only one Bay Area store, Booksmith, even makes an appearance on it. This is a sharp reversal [...]
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
What was Barack Obama reading during the campaign? “Be Quiet, Be Heard”
According to New Yorker photographer Platon, President Obama had the book Be Quiet, Be Heard: The Paradox of Persuasion by Susan and Peter Glaser on his desk during the campaign last year when Platon shot Obama for the magazine.
Platon delivered this nugget during his talk at the New Yorker Festival this afternoon. Of course, there [...]
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Run This Town (New York Yankees Version)
Before the Yankees game on Friday night, the stadium’s PA played a special Yankees version of the Jay-Z song “Run This Town.” Is it just bad or is it so bad it’s good?
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Listen to Bon Iver at the New Yorker Festival, or how bad is the iPhone’s microphone?
I saw Sasha Frere-Jones interview Justin Vernon of Bon Iver as part of the New Yorker Festival last night. After the interview, Vernon played a brief solo set of the following songs. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my MiniDisc recorder with me, and I have yet to acquire a Tascam DR-1. So, I recorded the set [...]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Can you still watch football?
Much has been made recently about the link between NFL careers and brain damage. The New York Times has run an excellent series on the subject and Malcolm Gladwell just penned an essay equating football with dog fighting in the New Yorker. I expect that he’ll rehash much of its content for his New Yorker [...]
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Does exercise prevent colds?
The answer is yes and no. Moderate exercise can strengthen your immune system, but running yourself to exhaustion will deplete it.
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-09
Paraphrasing M. Stewart:If political parties funded poly sci depts the way corps fund b-schools, we would consider their research propaganda #
This is what Condé Nast got for hiring snake oil salesman–uh, I mean, consul….?! http://bit.ly/40KPfh #
Are you joking?! The consultants pulled the oldest trick in the book on Condé–profit analysis. Where's that skew graph? http://bit.ly/ZXLkV [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Updike archives going to Harvard
No surprises here—John Updike’s archives are going to the Houghton Library at Harvard.
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
The Management Myth reviewed in the Journal
Philip Delves Broughton, whose book on HBS I wrote about last fall, reviewed Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth in the Wall Street Journal a couple months back. I’m currently enjoying Stewart’s skewering of business theory after having read his Atlantic article that spawned the book a few months ago. His thesis—that management theory is a [...]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-02
What's the point of watching TV if a hilarious show like Parks and Recreation is up for cancellation after only eight episodes? #
How did he expect to get the Olympics without healthcare…or healthcare without the Olympics…ugh. #
