February 2012
7 posts
The Two Things game →
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Economist Glen Whitman on The Two Things:
A few years ago, I was chatting with a stranger in a bar. When I told him I was an economist, he said, “Ah. So… what are the Two Things about economics?” “Huh?” I cleverly replied. “You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or...
January 2012
7 posts
Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age | The... →
“Fragmentary writing captures the tension between “digital” and “analog” reading better than anything else out there. And that tension, in many ways, is the defining feature of the contemporary reading experience.”
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton (via merlin)
December 2011
8 posts
Marginalia and the Yin-Yang of Reading and Writing... →
The bibliophile’s property rights, or why the osmosis of agreement and disagreement belongs in a book’s margins.
November 2011
13 posts
“The small business is the idealized social form of our time. Our culture hero is...”
– The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
October 2011
11 posts
The Publishing Industry, 5 Years from Now →
Interesting thoughts on the future of books from the BookBaby blog.
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The History of Digital Storage →
The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress.
September 2011
10 posts
7 tags
Awesome Quotes From 11 Famous Writers On... →
