How Heartbleed Happened
How Heartbleed Happened →By now the drama of the Heartbleed bug has mostly come and gone — though if you’ve not changed any passwords you’d be heartbroken to see comprised, you still need to — this...
View ArticleLooking for Ukraine
Looking for Ukraine →I’ve said it a number of times that I love when literary review send a reporter to conflict areas and let them be verbose and thorough in their impressions. Ukraine’s recent...
View ArticleA Visit with Alain de Botton
A Visit with Alain de Botton →I think Alain de Botton is one of the most interesting and valuable thinkers and writers alive today. I really enjoyed this piece: De Botton talked about some of the...
View ArticleA Brief Biography of John Quincy Adams
A Brief Biography of John Quincy Adams →This piece from NYRB is an awesome and brief biography of one of the more interesting and controversial early presidents of the United States: John Quincy Adams....
View ArticleMisogyny and the Monster Rapist Myth
Misogyny and the Monster Rapist Myth →Tom Meagher’s wife was raped and killed. But he writes quite movingly about how and why he refuses to accept the idea that the man responsible is some aberrant and...
View ArticleWhy Conversations Are Boring
Why Conversations Are Boring →I’m only now — at 28 — starting to understand why I was so damn inept at conversation much of my life. This nice little short essay about conversations covers a good...
View ArticleGraduates: Don’t Follow Your Dreams
Graduates: Don’t Follow Your Dreams →A different, and maybe better, kind of commencement speech: “Follow your dreams” and “live your passions” are insanely unhelpful tips when the bills need paying or...
View ArticleFive Lifetimes From Shakespeare
Five Lifetimes From Shakespeare →Jason Kottke recently pointed back to an old post he loved. And I’m so glad he did, it’s such an amazing and novel perspective on human history. Arthur M. Schlesinger,...
View ArticleDevelopment Funds For Dictators
Development Funds For Dictators →A really interesting and worthy book review of the awkward tension that exists — and is highlighted in William Easterly’s new book — about how the huge western economic...
View ArticleThe Blue Pallet
The Blue Pallet →If you’ve worked in shipping or (retail) logistics, you’ve probably have seen a blue pallet. They’re so much luxuriously better than a traditional ones whose quality is all over the...
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