The thing about bands is you have to have leaders in a band. Everybody can’t be on equal footing. It’s like a football team. Somebody's got to be the quarterback. Somebody’s got to snap the ball, somebody's got to run with the ball, somebody's got to block. | | | | | "Spy Game" (2001) (Universal Pictures) | | | | |  | “The thing about bands is you have to have leaders in a band. Everybody can’t be on equal footing. It’s like a football team. Somebody's got to be the quarterback. Somebody’s got to snap the ball, somebody's got to run with the ball, somebody's got to block.”
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 | Esquire |
| He bought a mansion and filled it with debauchery. It still isn't enough. | | |
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 | Capital & Main |
| Brett Bymaster, a Silicon Valley electrical engineer, was optimistic when Rocketship Education, a non-profit charter school chain, began building its flagship Mateo Sheedy elementary school next to his San Jose home in 2007. He and his family lived in a lower-income community, so he figured the new approach could help local kids. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's sons tell Anderson Cooper how it felt to be the children of the infamous spies, in a story that sheds new light on a central event of the Cold War | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it? | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
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 | New Republic |
| Two new books assess the quality of our digital lives: How do we shake off the village when we carry the world in our pocket? | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| This is the safest time in human history. So why are we all so afraid? | | |
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 | GQ |
| The "106 & Park" sensation is back in New York trying to jumpstart a second act—in stand-up comedy. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| Media in the Age of Trump. | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| Jill Angelo was a longtime Microsoft executive who spent a good portion of the 2000s leading the marketing agenda for the tech giant. But she always had a passion for female empowerment, and now the message she is promoting is one that drives a new Seattle-based company called genneve. | | |
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 | Conversations with Tyler |
| Vox.com’s editor-in-chief chats with Tyler Cowen about biases in digital media, politics, the morality of meat eating, and more. | | |
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 | Inc.com |
| For months, Jim O'Kelly taught students how to code via Slack and video lectures. On September 27, he suddenly vanished. And with him, students say, was $100,000 in tuition money. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| You Americans should learn the lesson of the Brexit shocker, and the stunning success of right-wing populists in Austria and France. | | |
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 | Tedium |
| Big-box stores have never really been a great fit for selling computers, and a big reason for that is that retailers didn’t initially know how to sell them. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, speaks about the delicate balance between innovation, entrepreneurialism, collaboration, and longevity. | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| DJ Steve Aoki introduces a new documentary on himself, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Computers are learning musical composition--and creativity--partly with the help of the 30-year-old digital music standard MIDI. | | |
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 | Lean Luxe |
| We sat down with Brooklyn Tailors’ CEO for a chat about endless growth and scale, remaining hands-on, and common sense business thinking. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Checking the polls hour after hour isn't pointless ... right? | | |
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 | ADWEEK |
| Will Walmart's backing help unseat Amazon? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| How a handful of Weimar émigrés came to have an outsized influence on the ideology of the American right. | | |
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