This week on the menu, we have end of car culture, what made the 747 so popular, our obsession with body data, and New York ― of course, we are talking about new office space and Don Draper's future. tweet this It is a
Jordan 3 Doernbecher long long weekend here in the United States, thanks to our independence day (July 4th.) But that doesn't mean I am not going to do my job and bring you some of the best stuff I have read in recent days. So here are my picks for this weekend's reading. An interview with Jonathan Franzen in the Paris Review. I have only recently discovered his work and well, this interview captures a lot of his personality that shows up in the book. The end of car culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal is one of those pieces that just sticks in your head. You don't know why, but you keep thinking about it. The body data craze. The big mainstream magazine (Newsweek) does a great job of explaining the current Silicon Valley madness in very human terms. Liquid City ― New York, that is. New York Magazine article is just fantastic. Where Don Draper ends, DB Cooper begins. For all of you who are missing Mad Men already, Lindsey Green has a lot to say. An idea whose time has come.
Jordan 13 Flints How the office space is being reinvented for the 21st century. [Metropolis] The unexpected success of Boeing 747. I have always wondered about that and am actually
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