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My holiday to-do list

November 10, 2009

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I generally loathe the winter holidays; winter in general, in fact. I prefer with no exceptions 105-degree weather over any day with a temperature below 60. And winter in Reno is bizarrely unpredictable. We can have more than a foot of snow one day and be wearing shorts in 60-degree sun the next. In the [...]

Outliers: A Review

January 16, 2009

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Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. Few have the ability to translate complex ideas into something readable. Even fewer have the ability to do it well. Gladwell is one of those rarities. Outliers: The Story of Success is Gladwell’s latest and arguably his best. In Outliers, Gladwell takes a look at select anecdotes [...]