If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. | | | | | Chris Pine and Ben Foster in "Hell or High Water" (2016) (CBS Films) | | | | |  | “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
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| | rantnrave:// For decades musicians would travel to NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES for their big shots at stardom. A given. But great music scenes popped up all over the place. DETROIT, SEATTLE, AUSTIN, BOSTON, ATLANTA, CHICAGO and other cities. In the startup/tech game, many arrogant smarties think it's only about SILICON VALLEY and to a lesser extent NEW YORK. You have to be there to win. I don't agree. Technology is the new music scene. The entrepreneurs are the new rock stars. Learning to code is everywhere from grade school to college to the workplace. My friend ANNA MASON recently joined RISE OF THE REST, a firm created by STEVE CASE's REVOLUTION that's betting on the success of regional startup ecosystems. They're about to road trip through LINCOLN, OMAHA, DENVER, SALT LAKE, PROVO, ALBUQUERQUE, and PHOENIX. Dear Startup Snobs, this is happening... You hear about TOM HARDY, MATT DAMON, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, CHRISTIAN BALE, and others as "the finest actors of our generation." They are great. Constantly missing from that list is BEN FOSTER. An actor that eats up the screen in everything he's in. From ALPHA DOG to this year's HELL OR HIGH WATER, which I saw yesterday during my usual Friday afternoon movie with friends ROB GOLDBERG and JASON RAPP. Foster is fantastic in this. As are CHRIS PINE and JEFF BRIDGES. In fact, Pine is so good in this movie you wonder why he bothers with dopey rom-coms and action movies. The story of bank robbers trying to get even with a morally corrupt banking system. Agree or not, it's an interesting tale given the lens of the current political and economic environment. Loved it... Been thinking about media, tech and commerce behemoths and whether their ability to compete in the future is hampered by the domination of winner-take-all platforms that currently don't face the same regulatory scrutiny given government's inability to adapt quickly. Not to mention their massive lobbying efforts. Which deserve anti-trust scrutiny, why, and when? "Bigness: Economic Growth, Disruption, Innovation and Anti-Trust"... I sleep with my phone. I shouldn't... No one asks uncles what they think... I judge your establishment by how many power outlets you have and where they're placed. And your wi-fi... LAURENE POWELL JOBS has good taste in content... Randoms: Where the " comic book font" came from... Happy Birthday to GIL FRESTON, JIM MACNIE, BABS RANGAIAH, TIM CHANG, ELIZABETH SCHIMEL, MARC ZAND and DAVID DANA. Belated to MITCH KANNER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Frontline |
| Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two of the most polarizing presidential candidates in modern history. Veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker Michael Kirk goes beyond the headlines to investigate what has shaped these two candidates, where they came from, how they lead and why they want one of the most difficult jobs imaginable. | | |
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 | Reuters |
| Casinos have worked to lure wealthy Chinese gamblers to baccarat tables. But a case involving the Sands shows how ‘shill’ players help keep the money flowing. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| For Ello, it seemed like a dream come true: a rush of new users, a media blitz, and $11 million in funding. Then reality kicked in. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Five years ago, a historic missile strike executed two U.S. citizens in Yemen. But their viral terror blueprints are still being used by jihadists around the globe. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Since the candidate clinched the nomination, the green room has become a chilly place. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Like an Instagram feed come to life. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| More and more news sites are shutting down the troll-ridden comment sections on their articles, but my experience as co-founder of a religion website that helped pioneer these kinds of online comments makes me think the troll infestation didn’t have to happen, and that news sites can and should preserve this valuable service. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The rise of algorithms has been relentless, but we need human input in our world of technological innovations | | |
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 | Mixpanel |
| “The reality is that media businesses have lived off the incredible inefficiency of the advertising market for their entire lives. Now it’s becoming efficient, and that makes life harder.” In fewer than 50 words, Nick Rockwell has just described the … | | |
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 | MTV News |
| Remembering the wandering star who brought punk and reggae to 1980s Argentina. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| The ill-fated U.S. intervention in Lebanon’s civil war fueled the rise of Islamist terrorism. And 34 years on, it still provides lessons about America’s failed Middle East policies. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| Legacy news organizations have been trying for more than a decade to crack the code of what to publish digitally, where and when. Now they are fielding a different kind of urgent request from readers -- can you "unpublish" that? | | |
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 | Racked |
| Designer Ann Lowe stayed under-the-radar her entire life. Now, she's in the spotlight at the brand new National Museum of African American History and Culture. | | |
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 | The Wrap |
| Top-notch content is what will bring the TV medium into an all-digital era | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The problem with going to the Super Bowl is that it’s hard to get back there. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Apple’s rumored takeover of McLaren is a symbolic final breath in the life of automotive desire. | | |
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 | International Affairs Review |
| On April 26, 2007, the small Baltic state of Estonia experienced the first wave of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Accompanied by riots in the streets, these cyberattacks were launched as a protest against the Estonian government’s removal of the Bronze Soldier monument in Tallinn, a Soviet war monument erected in 1947. (Originally published in April 2009) | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some fans might look at the new Golden 1 Center and see a fancy place to watch basketball. Vivek Ranadivé sees something much bigger. "This arena is the 21st Century cathedral," the Sacramento Kings owner said this week. "It's the communal fireplace, the place where people used to gather in old times." | | |
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 | Comicosity |
| There is a tension that cannot be denied between the above two references to LGBT representation -- and among dozens of other nuances of expectation -- when it comes to seeing queer narratives validated on the comic book page. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, has been on a buying spree in Hollywood. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Video-game culture warriors have a different, more fraught relationship to their hobby than other people do. | | |
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 | Vice |
| There's way more to the subculture than grown women who dress like dolls. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| A closer look at everyday life, far from the politics and propaganda. | | |
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