Archives for the 'Culture' Category
Short Post: Stupid Business Advice, NOT from Shakespeare
If you want good business advice you should look carefully at William Shakespeare’s career. Yes, read the plays, but don’t just take greeting-card snippets from famous passages. Instead, look at their deep structure and how they’re embedded in the early modern London economy.
And the Geek Shall Inherit the Earth, or Why to See “The Social Network”
[Cross posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] This isn’t a movie review, although I will talk about the movie “The Social Network” that came out last weekend. Instead, in this short post I argue that everybody reading this post – and just about everybody who works in the interactive media and technology industries – ought [...]
FOUND! That childhood book I couldn’t remember…
For any of you interested in my quest to find a childhood book that I couldn’t identify, my sanity has been saved by the father/son team of Jerry and David Daniel. Jerry spied my plea for help on Facebook and made it his personal mission to help me find it, and then David identified it [...]
The lack of persistence of childhood memories
As a parent, watching my kids grow bumps into memories of my own childhood, sometimes with stark clarity and sometimes like when you forget about that top step when walking up a staircase in a dream. Now that my eight year old girl has become a big reader, I find myself remembering the books that [...]
Open Letter to Jeff Bezos: Please Create an Amazon.com Tip Jar
In which the blogger begs Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos to help keep independent bookstores alive by creating an Amazon.com Tip Jar.
