I don’t like talking about bestseller lists. (It’s not that I’m modest. It’s that I’m superstitious.) But A Whole New Mind continues to put some solid numbers on the board — so I figured I’d risk angering the spirits by raising the topic. AWNM has been on the BusinessWeek bestseller list for four consecutive months, […]
“As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.” — Lt. Col. Paul Yingling on the lack of accountability among top American military brass in Iraq (Source: Armed Forces Journal via
Frauenmangel. (Definition: The lack of women.) According to this Economist story, it’s a problem afflicting eastern Germany. “In some towns there are only 75 young women for every 100 young men. In one or two there are as few as 40.”
That’s the lede of this Reuters story about Japan’s “Nobel Prize for manga,” which was awarded to Hong Kong’s Lee Chi Ching, author of Sun Zi’s Tactics (shown here.) One of the judges was the legendary Machiko Satonaka, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing back in May.
I’m a sucker for lists. And today, thanks to some odd cosmic convergence, I came across a pair I really like. The first is Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule (great book, btw) Bob Sutton’s “15 Things I Believe.” (You’ll find it looking at the left-hand column of this link and scrolling
PricewaterhouseCoopers says Americans will soon spend more money on videogames than on music. The rest of the world already devotes more of its shekels to games than to tunes.
In a new report on U.S. charitable donations, Charity USA says “About 65 percent of households with incomes lower than $100,000 give to charity. That is higher than the percentage who vote or read a Sunday newspaper.” Excellent example of what makes America so different from the rest of the world.
1. Freegans — “scavengers of the developed world, living off consumer waste in an effort to minimize their support of corporations and their impact on the planet, and to distance themselves from what they see as out-of-control consumerism.” (Source: NY Times, 6/21/07) 2. Precariat workers — “a new Japanese word combining the English words ‘precarious,’
Marc Andreessen says this and several other interesting things in this provocative post about how he hires talent. (HT: Jeremy Epstein)
A friend of mine is putting together a list of the world’s coolest quotations on design. Do you have a quote that’s your favorite? Words that hang above your desk or lolls in your sig file? A few phrases that motivate, challenge, provoke, or inspires whenever you read them? If so, feel free to send
