NYT op-ed: 24/7 workplace email is Bad Craziness. How about time-outs evenings and weekends?
In the New York Times yesterday, contributing writer Clive Thompson, also the author of “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing […]
Month: August 2014
America, Good Works & Bad Taste: The What About Clients/Paris Head-Out-Of-Your-Ass-Now Challenge.
Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your […]
Today’s Sensitive Hollywood Moment.
Or Overheard in Santa Monica. A true risk-taker college friend–no matter what they tell you 95% of Duke grads are not bust-out […]
In The Atlantic: Dumbing down education, killing college and scamming law students.
In case you hadn’t heard, on page 62 of the print edition of the September issue is “The Law-School Scam” by Paul […]
August, 22, 2014. Washington, DC People from all parts of the publishing industry, from industry professionals to award-winning authors, to aspiring authors, […]
“Dizzying” transformations: The Hill, H Street, Logan Circle, U Street…
Another DC revitalization. No hookers, though. Where do they go, anyway?
New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer kicks out the jams.
Last night at the Staples Center.
Joshua Pierce’s “The Snooze Button (And Other Stuff)”.
“This book is about stuff that annoys me, like waiting in lines, babies, boring sports, and job interviews. It’s also about awesome […]
Robin McLaurin Williams (1951-2014)
Rest in Peace, Sir Robin. Man-Child. Preacher. Madman. Rogue. You were truly touched by fire. See NBC coverage.
Three Yale law students in Slate: American sex offender laws are unfair, draconian and based on bad science.
In Slate today, the article “Sex Offender Laws Have Gone Too Far” argues that both state and federal sex offender registry laws […]
What I learned at work today.
If there is something about a strategy, a client demand, a candidate for employment, a new firm policy, a document-in-progress or draft […]
(And since Thursday is the new Friday.)
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” –Samuel Johnson
On the good foot.
An American story. While my fellow James Brown fan Holden Oliver (see post below) has not yet had the opportunity to see […]
Get on up, Campers.
“Early in the morning/Can’t get a ride….”
My Childhood: Bad.
I make a rich woman beg. I make a good woman steal. George Thorogood