July 2012
8 posts
“…we now live in a world where counter-intuitive bullshitting is valorized,...”
– @Tanehisi on the downfall (and rise) of Jonah Lehrer.
“Building a world-class career requires superhuman dedication, persistence, and...”
– #stuffwearenotlinkingto
The price you pay for an Olympic-caliber career - Fortune Management (via felixsalmon)
Bruce Springsteen's 3 decades in therapy
The larger story in Remnick’s delightful New Yorker profile of Bruce is about his constant, almost obssesive need to reassess and hone his life’s mission. (If you’re a Bruce fan, this is noble; if you’re not, it’s easy to find Bruce’s searching and speechifying laughable).
But it’s no surprise that Remnick tells us that Bruce, a 30-year devotee of...
“Sorkin will not take my critique particularly seriously, because it is on a...”
– Pareene on “The Newsroom.” 