Many of you know of my love of The Wire.  You can imagine my excitement when i heard from BroncosRule about the NY Times running a series where a reporter sat down and watched Season 5 of The Wire with real-life gangsgters.  Columbia University sociologist, Sudhir Venkatesh, who has a new book “...

I spent the week at MWC in Barcelona this past week.  I made my way to a bunch of booths and companies.  It was a huge show. Here are some thoughts: Phone Operating Systems There were many new phones released at the show.  LG announced 50 phones, Samsung had 22 more, Sony/Ericcson announced a new...

There’s a good article in the NYTimes today by my alter-ego (Michael Lewis) who wrote the influential Moneyball book about stats and baseball.  Here he talks about the NBA and how stats don’t tell the whole story.  He starts by profiling the Rockets forward Shane Battier, saying, Batti...

This Friday i went and saw the movie Coraline with some friends (trailer is here). While the movie sports an ordinary story - a cartoonish plot of evil lady trying to steal a young girls soul - it was extraordinary in the the way it looked in two ways.  First it was stop-motion, and second it was i...

As I’ve been talking about all over this blog, traditional media is on the decline (here and here). Papers are on their way out and everyone knows it.  Ever since i was a kid, I’ve always loved the local sports pages but one thing I’ve been doing for the past few years is reading ...

Image via CrunchBase I got tagged in Facebook to do one of these lists.  I really enjoyed reading some of my colleagues and some of my old friends from high school so i thought i’d put one together. The rules are that once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 ran...

I would like to call to attention a post written today about my new favorite player in the NBA.  Let me ask you this question: if you take: Every rookie who has ever played in the NBA since 1946 … Weed out everyone who played less than twenty minutes per game … And sort them by who gets...

Cover via Amazon There’s a new book by Seth Godin called “Tribes” which talks about the startup culture and out-of-the-box thinkers.  Two interesting parts of the book are the parts about followers and the parts about Leaders. A good question exists talking about the difference be...

I saw Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, Gran Torino, last weekend and really liked it. Clint played an over-the-hill retired Detroit autoworker who is sour. He’s pissed off at the lack of respect displayed throughout society and his family and his bitterness creates some pretty funny moment...

I read a great little post by Lizard about her morning.  It is a great depiction of the pain of waking up and the joy of finishing.  It takes a while to learn that there’s nothing as rewarding as getting up to run.  It always delivers.  Liz’s morning: • Get up • Whine • Go back...