December 2011
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Solitude and Leadership. →
Truly excellent and intellectual speech given to West Point students back in October 2009. As good as Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address. For real.
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Recent Walter Isaacson follow-up interview to his... →
Goes deeper into Isaacson’s personal POV about Steve’s assholeishness and why he cried so much. Interesting addendum to the book.
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Great Buzz Bissinger article about a young,... →
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The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire... →
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Shelley From Modular Records' Top 21 From 2011 →
Great taste in electro.
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What I've Been Reading the Past 2 Months.
Last one for 2011. Probably won’t do these big compilations next year and will instead rapidfire them out, one-by-one, as I come across the good ones.
I think long-form journalism is the only way out for news publishers given that the news cycle is a commodity. This year proves how much really good stuff is out there. On an unrelated note, I killed my Wired and Economist subscriptions this...
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WatchReznor, Karen O, and of course, David Fincher. So so rad.
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Fave Music of 2011
(This is a cross-post from Palm Springs Beats)
Okay, here we go. I’ve kept it simple this year — no albums, no videos, just my favorite tracks, which I’ve been logging in a spreadsheet all year. I’ve taken this more seriously than a lot of things I probably should have in 2011, but I don’t live with regrets. You’ll probably notice that I only spent about 10...
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WatchThis is the coolest thing you’ll see today. Paths of Hate by Damian Nenow.
UPDATE: Looks like the file was literally pulled down a minute after I watched it and posted this. You can peep the trailer here, but it doesn’t do the entire piece justice.