August 2011
2 posts
3 tags
Watch the Throne
Hua Hsu wrote the only Watch the Throne review that matters. Below is an excerpt, jump over to Grantland for a full review.
Let Them Eat Cake - Hua Hsu
Kanye West’s astonishing rise can be heard in his enunciation. His debut album, College Dropout, released in 2004, was an arriviste-rap triumph, full of the arch, exaggerated swagger of the fundamentally insecure. “I can’t...
June 2011
1 post
Scamper
Josh Linkner has a quality post on the Scamper creativity method. Excerpt:
Advertising legend Alex Osborn not only founded one of the most successful ad agencies in the world, BBDO, he also coined the phrase “brainstorming” and is credited for inventing the technique. Later in his career, he invented another technique that is lesser-known, but one that is incredibly powerful: SCAMPER. ...
May 2011
4 posts
The Fog of losing...
Jay Kang, on his gambling addiction: Six months after that morning in the Mercedes-Benz, I was sitting in the driver’s seat of my Subaru Outback, in a massive parking lot in Commerce, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles known for the blasts of dust that terrorize its inhabitants. Twelve thousand dollars lay wadded up in the glove compartment. I was trying to decide if I had what it took to ...
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Is desegregation to blame for the declining...
[This is a reply to a reflective blog post from a friend regarding March Madness. If you haven’t already, take a look. It is more than interesting to follow his thought process as he ponders what life would be like at HBCUs if desegregation never happened. http://bit.ly/e5Z0ML]
This is a topic I have been thinking of extensively and I hope my (sure to be rambling) comments make some sense. While I...
5th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
If you were presently unaware, the MIT Sloan Sports Conference just wrapped up this weekend. Truehoop has particularly good coverage of the event, including this gem about Tracy McGrady:
“Tracy McGrady was 1,000 hours of practice,” Van Gundy said. “He should be a Hall of Fame player. His talent was other-worldly. He was given a great leg up in the race against other...
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
3 posts
The CMO's Guide to the Social Landscape →
Cleaning out my old files and found this. Kind of interesting from a year in retrospect POV.
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
5 posts
JESUS TO JUDAS: The Struggle to Market Lebron...
Transcendent. LeBron James is a transcendent basketball talent. His unique combination of size, athleticism and skills (despite being larger than Karl Malone he plays on the perimeter) present a unique challenge to marketers as they struggle to emphasize his awe-inspiring play while overcoming the prejudice towards his galling competitive advantages. To make matters worse, LeBron’s peculiarly...
The World Needs More Allen Iverson....
I’ve spent the last 4 hours of my life devising the ultimate ranking system for my own posts based on Allen Iverson’s Practice Rant and Scientific Notation….
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
October 2010
29 posts
Don't be pushed: Build Big!
I can tell you about Leif Ericson / I know all the words to “De Colores” / And “I’m Proud to be an American”
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I’ve always thought of my best friend as a bit of a technology dilettante. So much so, that any idea I bounce off him that he doesn’t understand, I chalk up to his lack of knowledge on the subject of all things internet. Off the top...