Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
be noticed from afar.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
mutual and consensual.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Some editors are put off by brilliant but idiosyncratic manuscripts and some, such as Perkins, are enticed by them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Ramsey Beirne pitch to take on a search assignment, say he would consider it, then disappear for a few days before returning with an answer. The CEO’s of these small companies were consulting someone else, and that someone else, upon investigation, turned out to be the venture capitalist who sat on the company’s board of directors.
Randall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
a new mass media programmed not by editors, artists, or educators but by algorithms.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
Gillian Morris • Introducing Supernuclear: A guide to Coliving
“Easiest job in America,” we were told.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Who was Jack Gilbert? Students told me he was the most extraordinary man they’d ever encountered. He had seemed not quite of this world, they said. He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel, and he encouraged them to do the same. He didn’t so much teach them how to write poetry, they said, but why: because of delight. Because of stubborn
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