I’m starting with a couple of lengthy articles today, which are both worth reading in themselves but also talk to each other in interesting ways. Unintentional conversation: ”A Matter of Time” by Gabriel Sherman, and ”What Happened to Motorola?” by Ted C. Fishman Though the businesses in question are quite different, in essence these …
Category: 2014
Recommendations for August 22, 2014
Alright, so: those of you watching closely (are there any such people?) will have noticed that I haven’t posted in…quite a while. As in months. There are several reasons for that, but the short version is that work got very busy, and I not only didn’t have time to post but didn’t really have time …
Recommendations for January 21, 2014
Third week of the year and I am already behind schedule. Oh well. Film: Columbite/Tantalite dir. Chiwetel Ejiofor Coltan, or columbite/tantalite, is a mineral which is valued for small electronics because it can hold an electrical charge well (that is, it has high capacitance) without heating up. It is in your phone, your laptop, pretty …
Recommendations for January 12, 2014
My favorite film of 2013 was, by a fair margin, Spike Jonze’s Her. The critical reception has been pretty uniformly positive, as far as I have seen, so I won’t simply pile on. The main thing I have been saying to people to whom I’ve recommended the movie is that there is much more to …
Recommendations for January 5, 2014
#agir Recommendations for January 5, 2014 I’m trying to start the year off right, by being on schedule. I also thought it would be good to kick things off with some new music: Song: “Never Gonna Change” by Broods This song shares a lot of sonic DNA with Banks’s “Waiting Game,” which was pretty much …