The Mark of a Masterpiece
This story is actually from 2010 so if you’ve seen it already you can skip it. But if you haven’t, I cannot recommend this highly enough. Fantastic writing.
This story is actually from 2010 so if you’ve seen it already you can skip it. But if you haven’t, I cannot recommend this highly enough. Fantastic writing.
I’ve been thinking for a while about a series of posts describing how I use things. Since my iPhone is the device I use most, it seemed like the logical place to begin. I imagine that I use my iPhone home screen differently to most people. Here’s a screenshot: As is quickly evident, I keep [...]
This is a really good essay from Mark Lilla on the evolution of conservative politics in the United States. He explains that the important change has been the rise of redemptive reactionaries: people ‘who think the only way forward is to destroy what history has given us and wait for a new order to emerge [...]
Mat Honan: Google may have to get us to use Google+ if it wants to remain relevant. But it should be able to go about that in a fundamentally honest fashion. If it can’t keep its promises, if it can’t avoid resorting to trickery, if it can’t keep itself from subverting the power of its [...]
Fascinating article by Will Layman about how rock music can handle its transition to niche after being the dominant popular music form for so long.
Last year I was waiting in an airport when I saw a young boy of about 4 or 5 unhook one end of a velvet rope from a pole and hook it to another pole. He then unhooked the rope, looked at it and then hooked it back again. As soon as he’d done this, [...]
As a tie-in to my link to the Lessig video I posted yesterday, here’s Ezra Klien’s review of Lessig’s ‘Republic, Lost’ for the New York Review of Books. Klein isn’t so convinced that money is the root problem with US politics.
I wish I could employ Lawrence Lessig just to make presentations every day.
Yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought an Apple device on the date it was released and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to share my first impressions. This isn’t a review. There are plenty of those around if you want to know if you should get one. Instead, here are three thoughts. [...]