I post a lot about the tension between creativity and execution and the drum I always pound is that ideas are nothing without execution. Innovation is the skilled execution of a new and workable idea, and the only way you can determine if the idea is workable is to execute [...]

A great and very long article in Newsweek from novelists and new-journalist Tom Wolfe on how the outrageous hero of his 1987 Bonfires of the Vanities "couldn't get arrested today" for what he did then, not against the slings and arrows being fired around the financial world by quants and [...]

From Maria Popova, 5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success. Five great videos that are worth taking a minute to watch. David Foster Wallace "Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how [...]