Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
"Cook is maintaining, by words and actions, most of Apple's unique corporate culture. But shifts of behavior and tone are absolutely apparent; some of them affect the core of Apple's critical product-development process"
Marlen Esparza is fierce, cocky, and built for stardom. This summer she'll go into the ring in London, where she hopes to win gold at the Olympic debut of women’s boxing
Enjoyable two-part interview with Jonathan Ive, Apple's design guru. "We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense"
Forget skydiving, it's time for some spacediving. This summer Felix Baumgartner will set out to break multiple world records when he throws himself out of a balloon 23 miles above the earth. Might he even break the sound barrier?
Long, gripping story of William Alexander Morgan, US citizen and one of only two foreign nationals (the other was Che Guevara) to hold rank of comandante in Cuban revolutionary army. But who was he really?
Romney: Father, son and ghost. How much does the life and experience of George Romney, failed candidate for Republican nomination in 1968, explain motivation and electoral strategy of his son Mitt?
Ted Kaczynski killed three and injured 23 with mailbombs. He was crazy. But he wasn't stupid. He did a lot of deep thinking about the philosophy of technology. Should we take his ideas seriously, despite his crimes?
On the life and death of Micah True, ultrarunner known as Caballo Blanco, or White Horse. Free spirit who lived in remote canyons of northern Mexico. Ran in sandals. Vanished while running in wilderness he knew so well
Main topic: Losing faith in Obama. He overpromised, underdelivered. “It’s like a novelist being obsessed with Tolstoy or Proust, and then he ends up writing short stories that can barely get into some middlebrow magazine." Ouch
Story of Hans-Jürgen Kuhl. Made fortune in leather hot pants. Bankrupt, turned to "art". His quest? A perfect $100 bill. "Warhol copied currency, and his prints are now priceless. Kuhl copied currency, got busted, and is now broke"
Remembering Studs Terkel, historian and broadcaster, born 100 years ago. "He never lost his excitement at the thought that there was a world out there just waiting to be heard, and ready to be opened by the simplest of questions"
Sinclair goes to meet Gary Snyder, reluctant beat icon, now 82. Kerouac had him as Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums, the scholar-poet of the mountains. Lives in Thoreau-inspired wilderness encampment in Sierra Nevada foothills
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"Not always rational, and by no means always prudent, but penetratingly sane. He knew who he was"
