Curses to Tim Wong (who is actually a good friend but who assured me that the migration process to WP would be painless). This is a test message to measure the various ways in which I am in pain. I would expect a few weeks worth of clunky mismatched fonts and general bugginess as I [...]
The site might be down for some time this weekend as I’m making the shift from Typepad to WordPress. I’m assured that the process is easy and safe and thus have major concerns about how easy and safe it will be. The address will remain the same and hopefully the shift will fix a pesky [...]
Two of the most important books of the 20th century are Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Both books tackle the same question: freed from constraint, are human beings angels or monsters? How you lead people will be determined in some pretty important ways by how you answer this question. [...]
Talent is Overrated is a really good book with a radical thesis. This book could provide the natural bookend to Gladwell — read them both back to back. The central argument Colvin makes is that there is precious little evidence for the existence of inate talent. Success in a field, he argues, had everything to do [...]
