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Sarah and Jim, 1988 & 2011. For the past three years, Argentine photographer Irina Werning has been staging reenactments of old snapshots. The project, “Back to the Future,” includes 270 photographs made in 29 countries.Photo: Irina Werning Throughout high school, my friend Kenji had never once…

Feb 5, 2013

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown - Harvard Business Review

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Managing yourself August 8, 2012 Leer en españolLer em português Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases: GM is the founder of The…

Nov 8, 2012

An Intimate Portrait Of Innovation, Risk, And Failure Through Hipstamatic's Lens | Fast Company

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If Lucas Buick’s company Hipstamatic is on the verge of bankruptcy, you couldn’t tell by the dinner spread. It’s mid-September and we’re at the Isola restaurant in the Mondrian Soho, an expensive hotel-cum-lounge where you’re never quite sure you’re wearing the right style of Warby Parkers. Under…

Nov 2, 2012

I Banned All Internal E-Mails at My Company for a Week - Forbes

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This article is by Shayne Hughes, chief executive of Learning as Leadership. “All internal e-mail is forbidden for the next week,” I announced to my staff. I wish I could say I stated it boldly, chest puffed out and chin held high. Instead, I whispered it in a cowardly manner from behind the…

Oct 29, 2012

Los Angeles Review of Books - Louis C.K. And The Rise Of The 'Laptop Loners'

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Los Angeles Review of Books The Granada Buildings 672 S. La Fayette Park Place, Suite 30 Los Angeles, CA 90057 The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the…

Oct 9, 2012

How the Internet ruined San Francisco - Salon.com

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I had the misfortune to live in Manhattan during the ’80s, when all conversations turned ineluctably to real estate and the shops and people that made New York interesting were being wiped out by a boom economy. Then, you’d see a slightly faded kosher butcher shop replaced by an Italian fusion…

Oct 8, 2012

Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

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This is the first in a series of three essays, written by a Stoic, about what it means to practice an ancient philosophy in the modern world. (Read the second essay.) I never intended to become a Stoic. Who, after all, were the Stoics? They were those grim, wooden figures of ancient Greece and Rome…

Jul 28, 2012

High Scalability - High Scalability - How will memristors change everything?

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A non-random sample of my tech friends shows that not many have heard of memristors (though I do suspect vote tampering). I'd read a little about memristors in 2008 when the initial hubbub about the existence of memristors was raised. I, however, immediately filed them into that comforting…

Jul 28, 2012

What it's like to be an N.O.C. (Nerd Of Color)

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How do nerds of color like me fit in, and how do we deal with fellow nerds who don’t want to talk about things like race and class in comic books, video games, role playing games, and movies? I’ve told this story a million times: when I was young, my father kept me off the streets and saved much…

Jun 25, 2012

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes

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Our mission and vision Research integrity and publication ethics Sustainability The Executive Team The Board of Directors The Scientific Advisory Council Governance Careers at PLOS Contact us What is Open Science? Open Science Publishing > Research journals > Publication metrics > Publication fees…

Nov 4, 2011