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Soobrosa's Bookmarks

James Wood: Shallow Graves
The novels of Paul Auster.
2010-06-30 to bestof, books, fiction, profile, us, writer
Jonathan Rauch: Caring for Your Introvert
The habits and needs of a little-understood group.
2010-06-30 to bestof, group, psychology, sociology
Mitch Moxley: Rent a White Guy
Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing.
2010-06-29 to bestof, business, china
Story-Dash: Lehman Channeled Risks Through ‘Alter Ego’ Firm
Typically, companies are required to disclose only material investments or purchases of public companies. Hudson Castle was neither. Nonetheless, Hudson Castle was central to some Lehman deals up until the bank collapsed.
2010-06-29 to banking, bestof, collapse, crime, investment, mortgage crisis
Meghan O’Rourke: Good Grief
Is there a better way to be bereaved?
2010-06-29 to bestof, books, death, grief, loss, psychology
Chadrick Lane: The Chemistry of Information Addiction
It’s often remarked that “ignorance is bliss.” However, not knowing is stressful, which is why we strive to decrease that uncertainty whenever possible.
2010-06-28 to addiction, bestof, dopamine, information, psychology
Julia Ioffe: Roulette Russian
The teen-ager behind Chatroulette.
2010-06-28 to bestof, media, product, psychology, technology
Joe Weinman: Lazy, Hazy, Crazy - The 10 Laws of Behavioral Cloudonomics
Lazy, as in minimizing physical, cognitive, emotional and real dollar costs; hazy, as in using heuristics or rules of thumb rather than precise calculations; and crazy, or, as MIT’s Dan Ariely says in his book of the same name, “Predictably Irrational
2010-06-28 to bestof, business, it, product, psychology, technology
Brian Raftery: King of Cheez - The Internet’s Meme Maestro Turns Junk Into Gold
Huh has about 150 other ideas in development and about 1,000 registered domain names.
2010-06-24 to bestof, business, grassroots, internet, media, meme
Justin Lahart: Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
Maybe it's time to bring my old white board out of retirement, and rethink some of those old projects.
2010-06-24 to bestof, business, diy, society, technology

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