Entries from August 2010

Aug. 6, 2010

Young Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer, 18 or 19 years old, in Milan, 1918. Photo credit: Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Portrait by Ermeni Studios, Milan, Italy. (Via.) Image above is a little Photoshopped from the original. View full size here.

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Aug. 6, 2010

Innovation and Risk

“The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” — Randy Nelson of Pixar Studios

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Aug. 4, 2010

DeLillo: “The writer leads”

Don DeLillo’s 1997 letter to Jonathan Franzen: *The writer leads.*

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Aug. 4, 2010

A Note from Barack Obama

A note from Barack Obama to author Yann Martel.

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Aug. 2, 2010

The Sawyer Effect

Tom Sawyer and the power of intrinsic motivation.

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