February 2012
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“Living alone comports with modern values. It promotes freedom, personal control...”
– Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at NYU and the author of “Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone,” in a NYT column about living alone.
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January 2012
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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not...”
– John Steinbeck, in a letter from 1958 on falling in love.
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Things I learned about Costco from The New Yorker
I highly recommend Patricia Marx’s piece in The New Yorker last week (Jan. 16) about grocery shopping in New York. Not only is it incredibly funny, it really captures the economics of groceries here.
“If Costco were a country, its revenues would make it the sixty-fifth largest in the world, ahead of both the Republic of Microsoft and Applestand and right behind the United Kingdom of...
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“Perhaps the calendar, gazed upon from a distance, actually illuminates the...”
– A poignant essay by Ted Anthony about the power and legacy of a calendar.
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“When I was 17 years old, I sent away for a NASA astronaut application, received...”
– Facebook post from one of the most extraordinary and qualified people I know who has applied for the NASA astronaut training program. Like me, he’s dreamed about getting to space since he was tiny. Unlike me, he studied astrophysics, has spent the last three austral summers working in...
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“Leaving and moving on — returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and...”
– Carrie Brownstein, co-writer of Portlandia, on her previous relationships. Quoted from this wonderful profile about her last week in The New Yorker.
December 2011
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“You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is...”
– WSJ’s piece in Weekend today on how to ace an interview at Google and why brain teaser questions are spreading to other picky employers.
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the new sarablask.com, paring down the digital...
I spent my weekend paring down my digital footprint. I killed my old site and redirected the URL to Tumblr, unsubscribed from countless newsletters, group deals, innumerable group deal spinoffs, sale announcements, where-to-eat emails, and deleted my accounts on an assortment of social platforms that will not reach mass adoption.
Privacy aside, there are a multitude of reasons why I did this....
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November 2011
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Outsource your Thanksgiving to Momofuku for just $350. (h/t @felixsalmon)
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“The next time you make a sandwich, pay attention to your hands. Seriously!...”
– An interesting read by Bret Victor if you care about the way in which we interact with technology.
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“How does it end? The dictator dies, shrivelled and demented, in his bed; he...”
– The lede to Jon Lee Anderson’s piece in The New Yorker this week about Gadhafi’s last days.
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“We’ve been in this town long enough to know that every Brooklyn couple...”
– From Jason Gay’s WSJ column today on love in Brooklyn, basketball and the Kardashian-Humphries union that spanned 72 days.
October 2011
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“We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many...”
– Mona Simpson’s eulogy to her brother Steve. The most beautiful eulogy you might ever read.
