Author name: Dan Pink

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The great Saul Bellow died yesterday. The New York Times has an excellent long obituary that reviews Bellow

I’m off to Phoenix for a day of flogging. If you’re in the area, come to the main event Tuesday night at Vermillion Studios. But even if you’re not in the area, check out the incredibly cool event poster. (Postscript: They’ve apparently added more seats to accommodate additional people — so come on down!)

The Economist (April 2d, 2005) has a great piece about the prevalence of mobile phones in South Korea. Three out of four people in the country carry a mobile — and that ubiquity is overturning even recently established social conventions. For example, “many young South Koreans . . . do not think e-mail is particularly

Robert William Fogel is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose other claim to fame is that he’s quoted in Chapter 2 of A Whole New Mind. (“[Prosperity] has made it possible to extend the quest for self-realization from a minute fraction of the population to almost the whole of it.”) Fogel has published a new paper,

Careful readers of A Whole New Mind know that three forces are nudging us out of the Information Age and into the Conceptual Age: Abundance, Asia, and Automation. Marian Baker sends a great example of abundance: a $345 candle.

In 1999, law professor Larry Lessig wrote a fascinating book titled Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. But law and technology have the ugly habit of changing, so the book now needs some revisions. Rather than do it entirely himself, however, the monumentally creative Lessig has established a wiki that will allow anybody to edit,

New research out of Canada and published in the March issue of the Journal of Consumer Research turns some conventional gender wisdom on its head. Most people believe that women respond more robustly than men to emotional advertising. But it turns out that guys get just as weepy as gals when they watch heartstring-tugging ads

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