The more recent cover New York Magazine features an incredible photo by Iwan Baan showing the blackout in lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. It’s a perfect bookend to the recent cover by Bloomberg Businessweek. Baan’s photo of lower Manhattan is difficult to stomach.
There’s so many interesting tidbits contained in this Businessweek profile of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate, and 52-year-old Carlos Brito, the man in charge of the company, that I’m at a loss where to begin. It’s a deeply fascinating look at how there is the runaway train of AB InBev and then craft [...]
Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel just tweeted “Our cover story this week may generate controversy, but only among the stupid.” The cover is fantastic, but the article by Paul Barrett is even better. Even disregarding the scientific evidence, insurance companies are adjusting its policies to account for climate change to better profit from the shift.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can [...]
“The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally [...]
Ben Yagoda: So when should you use the dash? Writers who deploy this mark comfortably and adeptly (rather than haphazardly) are conscious of the rhythm and dynamics of a sentence. A well-placed dash adds energy and voice. The period is sometimes referred to as a “full stop,” and I think of the dash as fully [...]
Ostensibly, this Wired profile is about legendary videogame creator Peter Molyneux, who recently left Microsoft to start his own company 22Cans. But, it is also so much more. Molyneux is known for dreaming up big, heady concept games, over-promising while under-delivering, and marching to his own drum beat. He doesn’t play it safe when it [...]
For the fashionable book nerd in your life, designer Tori Iannarino makes screen-printed cotton scarves with excerpts from classic novels on them for $42. Iannarino will make custom scarves, but she also has several classic books available on her Etsy store, like A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion. Unfortunately, due to demand she is [...]
Austin Carr had me from the get-go with his profile of Hipstamatic, which was basically Instagram before Instagram became INSTAGRAM. If Lucas Buick’s company Hipstamatic is on the verge of bankruptcy, you couldn’t tell by the dinner spread. It’s mid-September and we’re at the Isola restaurant in the Mondrian Soho, an expensive hotel-cum-lounge where you’re [...]
