January 2012
32 posts
2012 Annual Letter From Bill Gates →
‘Innovation is the means, and equity is the end goal’
lovely interview with Brene Brown →
via Dumbo Feather
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class →
via the NYT
The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious... →
post by Maria Popova (brain pickings) on Clay Johnson’s book, The Information Diet
“I like to get ideas in circulation. I think that self-help has frightened people...”
– Alain de Botton, interview in Dumbo Feather Q1 2012
Paul Graham: A word to the resourceful →
‘The unsuccessful founders weren’t stupid. Intellectually they were as capable as the successful founders of following all the implications of what one said to them. They just weren’t eager to.’
The Edge question 2012... what is your favourite... →
new Wes Anderson film... Moonrise Kingdom →
B Corps: Firms with benefits →
via the Economist
..got me reading about the B Corp movement
“Wanting to meet an author is to me akin to lingering over a record cover or a...”
– from an interview with Pico Iyer, on his latest book, a memoir about his relationship with Greene’s work
The Joy of Slow →
by Will Self, via Think Quarterly by Google
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's... →
via the Observer
Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right →
via the NYT
Mapping the storyverse →
via the Guardian
December 2011
28 posts
TEDxRC2.. Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of... →
Alberto Cairo is the head of the ICRC’s orthopedic program in Afghanistan.
Maria Popova's Beautiful Mind →
via mother jones
The World, by Paula Scher →
via 20x200
Book Pickings.. by the fabulous Brain Pickings →
Postscript: Christopher Hitchens →
by Christopher Buckley, via the New Yorker
Steven Johnson: Anatomy of an Idea →
I Work For The Internet →
