How do you get more kids to get hooked on reading? Give them banned books. In what is clearly an early favorite for best idea of the year, I just read on the fastcoexist blog about a campaign by Uprise Books to promote literacy among underprivileged youths. How do they plan on doing this? By [...]
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Just when I thought the Steve Jobs articles were fading away, along comes “An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs” on Fast Company’s Co.Design blog. And instead of inspiring the designers or tinkerers among us, this one is for the HR department. The article is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve [...]
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Thanks to ZipCar, there are two little Fiats on my corner that make me smile every morning as I walk to work. One red, one tan, little bursts of fun in an industry that not only helps me forget about those J.Lo commercials, but injects some much needed personality into the category. Which is something [...]
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One of my top 10 things to do at this time of year is to avoid writing blogs posts that list top 10 things. But the lessons in Inc. magazine’s “10 Surprising Brand Winners of 2011, are worth sharing. These lessons are not new, and that’s what I found valuable; they affirm that the classic [...]
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With temperatures in New York finally dipping into the 30’s, for the first time since last winter, it’s time to make sauce. Sauce means you know what you’re having for dinner before you eat breakfast. Sauce is that fabulous smell of slowing simmering tomatoes that permeates the entire house. Sauce is when eight friends drop [...]
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Brain damage. Drug abuse. Broken bones. Death. This, ladies and gentleman, is a story about hockey. In just three articles, “Punched Out,” John Branch’s brutal New York Times’ piece on NHL player Derek Boogaard has ripped open a wound that the league would probably not want to talk about, especially considering that three players, including [...]
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If I was a student at Penn State, I would boycott this weekend’s home game and encourage 106,000 of my fellow fans to do likewise. Visuals have power, and imagine the power that a wall of empty seats, projected to a national TV audience, would have during ESPN’s broadcast of Saturday’s game. Imagine the show [...]
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Phaidon publishes the world’s most gorgeous books. Spend a few minutes on their site and tell me you don’t want to own everything they’ve produced, from the Art of French Baking to the Atlas of 21st Century Architecture to Dieter Rams’s “As Little Design As Possible.” Print, thankfully, is alive and kicking. So when I [...]
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To honor one of the best days on the NYC calendar—Marathon Sunday—I’d like to say a few words about the connection to running and creative. I can honestly say half of all ideas that come to me, come outside of my office. My office is where I do research; it’s a place where I keep piles of [...]
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I Got The Show Right Here
What The Sopranos did for New Jersey, Luck could do for horse racing. Right out of the gate, we meet Ace. Ace Bernstein, it would appear, has spent the past few years at a federal hotel for some past grievance. Ace is anxious to get back to work, and one area of business in which [...]
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