Paul Graham | Paul Graham | 20 November 2012 "Ask yourself: who wants this right now? Who wants this so much that they'll use it even when it's a crappy version made by a two-person startup they've never heard of? If you can't answer that, the idea is probably bad" Comments Charles Siebert | NYT | 21 November 2012 Superb account of college football star trying to make it in the NFL as an undrafted free agent. Siebert followed Pat Schiller closely for this story and got to know him well. As well he might; he's the linebacker's uncle Comments Jeremy Grantham | GMO | 21 November 2012 "We cling to the idea of the good old days. [But] the US GDP growth rate that we have become accustomed to for over a hundred years – in excess of 3% a year – is not just hiding behind temporary setbacks. It is gone forever" (PDF) Comments Walter Russell Mead | American Interest | 18 November 2012 When Israel bombards Gaza many ask why America doesn't criticise Israel. It's not Islamophobia, lobby power, neocon dreams. "It’s something much simpler: many though not all Americans look at war through a distinctive cultural lens" Comments Jonathan Zimmerman | LA Review Of Books | 21 November 2012 On screenwriting manuals. "I now own about 25 screenwriting books, a drop in the bucket of the over 1,500 Amazon claims to carry. While their titles line my bookcase, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading any of these books in public" Comments Adam Doster | Classical | 20 November 2012 Invented by underemployed bike messengers. Contact is allowed but only like-to-like, so no t-boning your opponent's legs with your bike. Keep your feet off the ground, try to pass in triangles. Above all, "don't be a dick" Comments | 
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