Selected Reading
I read 20-30 long form essays and articles each week, culled from various online sources. I tend to enjoy non-fiction pieces about business, technology, design, music, writing, psychology and life.
What follows is a compilation of the very best of that writing, updated semi-regularly.
1/30/12
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
1/25/12
You Are Not Running Out of Time
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Seven Things Designers Can Learn From Stand Up Comics
There Are Some People Who Don’t Wait
10/12/11
Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
Indy Hall Coworking Expands to Offer Cohousing
Buildings, Health and Creativity
9/9/11
Inside the Deal That Made Bill Gates $350,000,000
Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities
7/15/11
12/24/10
With a Little Help From His Friends
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Now That We’ve Got It, What Have We Got?
Settling Down Without Settling
11/17/10
Is There Anything Good About Men?
11/1/10
7/27/10
Bill Murray Is Ready To See You Now
7/19/10
Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure
7/11/10
Advice For My Brothers (and For You)
7/3/10
The Landscape - Marfa, Texas Pt. 1
Art, Money, Industry and Landscape - Marfa, Texas Pt. 2
Why Change is So Hard: Self-Control is Exhaustible
6/20/10
Creatives Don’t Believe in Advertising
6/5/10
Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity
Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
Vonnegut: How To Write With Style