When Seth Godin announced a series of reader meetups oriented around his new book, Linchpin, I decided right away to organize the Vancouver event. Linchpin’s themes of overcoming internal resistance and bringing a sense of art into one’s work have resonated with me as I have developed RedRovr, and I looked forward to meeting others [...]
I’m organizing a meetup in Vancouver tomorrow (June 14) around marketer Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. The Vancouver event is part of a worldwide series of meetups about Linchpin all on the same day – set into motion by Seth but organized locally by volunteers. Vancouver has the 7th largest showing worldwide (!), behind cities like [...]
William Gibson: Say it’s midway through the final year of the first decade of the 21st Century. Say that, last week, two things happened: scientists in China announced successful quantum teleportation over a distance of ten miles, while other scientists, in Maryland, announced the creation of an artificial, self-replicating genome. In this particular version of [...]
OK, almost a month old, but great. Paul Ford, of ftrain.com renown, on leaving his job: You know what happened, really and without irony? I had an opportunity to be an editor at Harper’s, to edit pieces for the magazine. It was something I expected to really want. I had wonderful editors to learn from. [...]
March 17, 2010 – 10:44 pm
I feel like I’m just marking memorials these days. First singer Kate McGarrigle (RIP post here), now Big Star frontman Alex Chilton. A couple of years ago I wrote a post about my surprise at learning that the Alex Chilton I knew for “Thirteen” and “The Ballad of El Goodo” had been a teen idol [...]
Hark! A Vagrant. Very entertaining webcomic. Currently a bit more Canada-focused than usual, following the Olympic hockey gold. via my bro
January 30, 2010 – 1:47 pm
“Personal biospheres” by Seattle artist Vaughn Bell. So great – I need one of these for my living room. Or better yet: a cafe filled with multi-person versions. via A New F*cking Wilderness
January 23, 2010 – 12:36 am
She seemed so happy: she was going to put the situation out of her mind and drink up the world to her fullest. She travelled back and forth to Europe, she saw my and Martha’s shows, she went on a grand tour of the world, she swam in lakes in the country. She was a [...]
January 22, 2010 – 11:30 pm
Who’s excited for Feb 2? Flight 815 crash in real time (via maxistentialism).
December 15, 2009 – 12:43 pm
In the last week I finished both my MBA program and Infinite Jest. The former took longer than the latter, but seriously not by much! I’ve been stockpiling a list of reading to explore once I finished. There are a lot of inspiring people out there — can’t wait to dive into this as I [...]
