From the ever-elegant Rapha: Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain… Once, someone asked me what pleasure I took in…
This video is brilliant. Its video and audio reinforce each other, its content engages, and it makes you smile. Plus it’s genius marketing for a book. By the time it’s over, I want to go out and buy “Where Good…
From the New York times a few years ago, a piece on how our attitudes about potential affect our potential: Those who believe they were born with all the smarts and gifts they’re ever going to have approach life with…
A quick read that makes you think about how you interact online, offline, and everywhere. What worries me are the consequences of a diet comprised mostly of fake-connectedness, makebelieve insight, and unedited first drafts of everything. Read more >> Better…
This story about a goose in Los Angeles’s Echo Park is very cute. Feathers Fly in L.A. as Maria the Goose Faces Eviction – WSJ.com
President Obama dines with Silicon Valley leaders including Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Oracle chief Larry Ellison, and a bunch of others.
As always, Neil Strauss slices to the fascinating core of popular psychology. This time, as prelude to his forthcoming book, he writes in the Wall Street Journal about positive belief and superstardom: Before they were famous, many of the biggest pop…
This is pretty genius.
Ever wonder where all those happy/engaged/entertained/… people in architectural renderings come from? >> To Sell the Future, Find the Right ‘People Textures’ for the Sketch – NYTimes.com
Sometimes a headlines is more powerful than the story. >> Google receives more than 75,000 job applications over the last week | Los Angeles Times