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May 23

Recent Good Reads.

Essential reads:

• State of the species.
• Pro Publica on what data brokers know about you.
• Great article from 2011 about decision fatigue.
• Murakami’s open letter to Boston after the marathon bombing.
• What if we never run out of oil?
• Ken Brennan is the man. If that wasn’t proof enough.
• The curse of reading and forgetting.
• A history of blue jeans.
• Buzz Bissinger is a total weirdo.

Great reads:

• Being Jewish in state prison.
• The strange case of the Super Mario Bros. movie.
• Fact-checking at The New Yorker.
• How Raymond Davis helped turn Pakistan against the U.S.
• Felix Baumgartner profile in Vanity Fair.
• Learning from Los Gatos. Peer progressives not libertarians!
• The definitive Daft Punk RAM review.
• Inequality and the modern culture of celebrity.
• Jared Lanier on how the Internet is destroying the middle class.
• Marc Maron’s hunt for the perfect pants.
• Great profile on J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons.
• The history of baseball stadium nachos.
• What should Obama do about Syria?
• NYT profile of Y Combinator.
• How I lost $500K for love.

May 22

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” — Charles Bukowski

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Apr 30

Early Processing experiments. So fun. #hax

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