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December 2011
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October 2011
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“You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve...”
August 2011
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The Prettiest Boy in the World →
In Europe’s fashion world, where the masculine ideal is a good deal less masculine, Pejic found some work, but he didn’t become one of the industry’s coveted items—the modeling world’s version of the Birkin or the Spy Bag or the Muse—until Carine Roitfeld, then editor-in-chief of French Vogue, decided to dress him as a woman for an editorial shoot. “Carine Roitfeld was just like, ‘Put him in...
July 2011
6 posts
The New Frontier for Luxury Shopping →
There he stands alone on his horse, a fierce giant shimmering out of nowhere rising 131 feet against the vast Mongolian sky. Eight hundred years after he declared the Great Mongolian State in 1206, Genghis Khan rides again, all 250 stainless-steel tons of him. As I bump along on one of the few paved roads 20 miles outside the capital, Ulan Bator, this kitschy monument to the new mineral-rich and...
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an...”
– Katharine Hepburn
Ray Dalio’s Richest and Strangest Hedge Fund →
Dalio is rich—preposterously rich. Last year alone, he earned between two and three billion dollars, and reached No. 55 on the Forbes 400 list. But what distinguishes him more from other hedge-fund managers is the depth of his economic analysis and the pretensions of his intellectual ambition. He is very keen to be seen as something more than a billionaire trader. Indeed, like his sometime rival...
June 2011
3 posts
“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear...”
– Haruki Murakami
May 2011
4 posts
How to Spot a Psychopath →
It was the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel who first suggested, early in the 19th century, that there was a madness that didn’t involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it “manie sans délire” – insanity without delusions. He said sufferers appeared normal on the surface, but they lacked impulse controls and were prone to outbursts of violence. It wasn’t until 1891, when the German...
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle.
March 2011
2 posts
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by...
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if...
February 2011
2 posts
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
December 2010
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November 2010
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Going Dutch →
Though the Netherlands is consistently ranked in the top five countries for women, less than 10 percent of women here are employed full-time. And they like it this way. Incentives to nudge women into full-time work have consistently failed. Less than 4 percent of women wish they had more working hours or increased responsibility in the workplace, and most refuse extended hours even when the...
1. Money can’t buy happiness but
somehow, it’s more comfortable to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle…
2. Forgive your enemy, but
remember the bastard’s name.
3. Help a man when he is trouble & he will remember you
when he is in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because
it’s illegal to shoot them.
5. Alcohol does not solve any problem, but then,
neither does milk.
“But when you have the honey you desire, let not this wasp outlive us both to...”
– Shakespeare
October 2010
8 posts
The Starbucks Cup Dilemma →
Cedar Grove is a best-case answer to the question of what happens when waste leaves your hand. This question has been obsessing Seattle’s second-largest company because of an object that’s sitting at the corner of my desk (and millions of others) right now, in a sweaty puddle of guilt: a single-use paper cup.
September 2010
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August 2010
7 posts
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”
– Sylvia Plath