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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dan Kois has an exceptional profile of children’s author Lois Lowry, best known for her 1994 Newbery Medal-winning novel, The Giver. The confrontation that concludes the Giver Quartet is a face-off between Gabriel and the sinister Trademaster — a climactic battle made perfectly unfilmable by the fact that Gabriel refuses to fight. Instead he uses [...]
The legendary musician is given the profile treatment by the NYT. Fans of Young’s will want to read the entire thing. It’s a doozy. Young, 66, spotted this land out the window of a plane banking out of San Francisco four decades ago and now owns nearly 1,000 acres of it. His song “Old Man” [...]
Charlie Leduff is a Detroit-based journalist, probably best known for his 2011 article Mother Jones about the death of Aiyana Mo’nay Stanley-Jones. His latest piece on Detroit is a bit lighter, but still worthy of your time. LeDuff golfed his way across Detroit, setting up a single, 18-mile long golf hole. t’s a par 3,168, 18-mile, single hole [...]
TechCrunch’s Ryan Lawler spent a day pretending to be a Postmates bike courier. Let’s start with the setup: PostMates delivery folks bring their own bikes and gear, but are outfitted with an iPhone running a PostMates app that alerts them to new jobs and shows them where to pick up and drop stuff off. The [...]
I’ve written about/praised the non-profit Khan Academy before, but Wired has a nice profile of the organization and founder Salman Khan. Khan Academy began in 2006 as a tidy collection of math and science tutorial videos from its founder Salman Khan, a hedge-fund analyst who had posted the material to help friends and relatives. Its [...]
The New York Times takes a peek at Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO show, ‘The Newsroom’: Whether Mr. Sorkin has correctly anticipated the mood of viewers as angry but ready to be inspired again, even he is not sure if he still knows how to write for them, particularly when he is not watching much current [...]
