Streamlining my lifestyle
“What Minimalism is really about is reassessment of your priorities so that you can strip away the excess stuff—the possessions and ideas and relationships and activities—that don’t bring value to your...
View ArticleSeth Godin & Penelope Trunk
In this insane world of social media and blogging and reading celebrity’s personal tweets, I have been amazed to find that the bloggers I most admire and want to emulate…. actually KNOW each other!...
View ArticleThe Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Part 2 (or,
Here’s the second part of my treatment of William Deresiewicz’s article for The American Scholar (here’s part one). His writing puts into elegant prose all the thoughts that have been swirling around...
View ArticleThe Fisherman’s Parable
I found this via 37signals, who found it here. The Fisherman’s Parable An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked....
View ArticleJust when you thought the entire law school system was as ridiculous as it...
I could riff for months on the million reasons not to go to law school (start with my favorite blog, Philalawyer). I thought the system was already as absurd as it can get, but I was wrong. Kaplan is...
View ArticleUnpaid Internships
This is a fascinating New York Times article. It’s about the implications of the swelling amount of unpaid internships: Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say. I have had five...
View ArticleDavid Heinemeir Hansson gets it
This is a great interview with David Heinemeir Hansson, one of the two authors of the fantastic Rework and partner at 37 Signals. Among the topics discussed: scalability as ideal business strategy,...
View ArticleI’m embarrassed for our generation
Our grandparents fought World War II and survived the Great Depression. Our parents pushed through Civil Rights and protested the Vietnam War. What have we done? I’m spending $50,000/year for school....
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