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We’ll have it soon. I promise. As someone chided me, “a blog without RSS is just a web site.” Ouch. I’m also getting beaten up over this deficiency in the comments section of TomPeters.com, where you can read a new interview about the new book.

I just heard about a fascinating new paper by the well-known German economist (well-known for German economists, that is) Armin Frank. In a recent study Frank found that the worst way to induce excellent performance in employees was to supervise them. The more supervision a boss slathered on, the more the employee felt distrusted–and the

The Times of India weighs in on A Whole New Mind.

My friend Bill Tulloh, an economist affiliated with George Mason University, offers a very smart reframing of the core argument of A Whole New Mind. I’ll quote his email at length — because I wish I’d come up with it myself: “The key trend, as I see it, is that the cost of creating additional

In Kansas City, I had lunch with my old pal, Aaron Barnhart, the Kansas City Star‘s estimable TV critic. Aaron said that the lunch of choice in KC was barbecue — and that the barb of choice was a sandwich called “burnt ends.” Here’s a photo of what I ordered (and ate): Don’t know exactly

More than 200 people showed up at the University of Kansas Wednesday night for the first stop in “The MFA is the New MBA” tour. Many thanks to KU’s Department of Design for pulling off such a spirited and fun event. Here I am signing a book, my head topped by a nifty new KU

A huge congrats to my pals at Wired for winning a richly deserved National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the magazine world’s equivalent of the Oscar for Best Picture. (Check out the three 2004 issues submitted for the prize: February, October, and the ingenious November issue.)

Sean Canty (left) and Quincy Ellis, two CHAD students who appear in Chapter 4 of A Whole New Mind. In the fall, Sean enrolls at the California College of the Arts and Quincy at the Rhode Island School of Design. (Tip: Print this photo. These guys are going to be famous.)

Great day in Philly yesterday. I really enjoyed my conversation with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane, who’s a terrific, smart, and engaging interviewer. (Listen to the interview here.) The highlight was visiting the Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD), which I wrote about in Chapter 4 of A Whole New Mind. Here’s a (very right-brain)

This week I’ll be talking about A Whole New Mind in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday (sold out!), Philadelphia on Tuesday, and Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday. Click the links for more information. Meantime, several reviews, including Newsweek and Publishers Weekly, have come in over the last few days — and the reviewers have been (whew!) kind.