12.1
Two reviews, one popular source. One offers praise for, the other pans, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book: “Outliers”. You. Make. The call: Chance & Circimstance, by David Leonhardt or It’s True: Success Succeeds, and Advantages Can Help by Michiko Kakutani. Both of the New York Times. I wonder if these two get along very well at work.
11.24
Malcolm Gladwell, in a typically wide-ranging talk, spoke at, of all places, an AIGA sponsored design conference on the lessons, in creativity, one can glean from the music careers of Fleetwood Mac and The Beatles. Oh yeah, he also has a new book out.
11.23
Mr. Bourdain’s answer – in part – when asked asked where he found the time to write Kitchen Confidential while working his hellacious schedule of seventeen hour days, seven days a week:
Deep inside me there is a lazy hippie, ya know, there is a little part of me that would like to just, ya know, lay around smoking weed and just watching the Simpsons all day and I’m always looking for ways to outwit that person.
Classic. Wish I was there. A good listen.
11.21
Ah, the iPod of books. Indeed. How many times have you been sitting on a train or at a café table with a book, and wished to high heaven that instead of a single measly book, you had a playlist — perhaps comprising 2 pages of Schopenhauer, 3 pages of Dan Brown, a paragraph of Cormac McCarthy, a scene of Pinter, and a single brilliantly chosen sentence of Martin Amis?
Yes, me too. ⇥
7.23
Harry Potter and the Phantom Delivery Sounds like dirty pool to me. Cool box, though. (via DF)