January 2012
3 posts
“the best work of your life - the most work of your life”
– Thoughts on leaving Wieden & Kennedy (Noisy Decent Graphics)
“Nothing good gets away”
– John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter
December 2011
12 posts
“What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan...”
– Ice Cube on Eameses and His Hometown — Q&A - NYTimes.com
“At some point in our talks I asked Schwarzenegger how much time he had spent,...”
– California and Bust | Business | Vanity Fair
“There’s nothing more validating than 13,000 people around the world putting...”
– Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development | The Verge …. Well, I could think of a few things…
“The investigations are what keep the agents’ minds sharp, which reinforces their...”
– Inside the Secret Service
“Sensitive to such perceptions, Obama’s inaugural procession in 2009 changed the...”
– Inside the Secret Service
“The “ruined table.” This meant one littered with the detritus of dirty plates...”
– Christopher Hitchens’ death: Anna Wintour on what her old friend Hitchens loved most. - Slate Magazine
“Our operational systems are integrated into the wider economy. Expensive...”
– On the cusp of collapse: Complexity, energy & the globalised economy | Energy Bulletin
“When increased complexity begins to have a net cost, then responding to new...”
– On the cusp of collapse: Complexity, energy & the globalised economy | Energy Bulletin
“The age of architectural Brutalism is past, but between the travails of...”
– Up From Ugliness - NYTimes.com
November 2011
9 posts
“The “batteries” of the electric car come by way of the tip of what...”
– Just an atom or two? My brain is trying very hard to fathom this.
BBC News - Single-molecule ‘electric car’ taken for test drive
“Nobody really wants government to behave like a startup — nobody wants their...”
– Government is not a Startup - Expert Labs
“2001 may turn out to be the year that the UK’s consumption of ‘stuff’ – the...”
– Why is our consumption falling? | Environment | The Guardian
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October 2011
6 posts
“ImpactBase is a searchable, online database of impact investment funds. Listing...”
– Home | ImpactBase
September 2011
12 posts
“The problem isn’t the culture,” one of them told me. “The problem is that there...”
– At UBS, It’s the Culture That’s Rogue - NYTimes.com
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August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
8 posts
“From a business and marketing perspective, the suggestion that Bridgewater’s...”
– Ray Dalio’s Richest and Strangest Hedge Fund : The New Yorker - an interesting look into decision making within one of the world’s top hedge funds, and in particular the tension between individual genius and performance and the desire on behalf of large institutional clients to have a...
