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Marginalia

Margin notes from what I'm reading, hearing, and watching, finished never.

The Company Man

The values of a society have always been strongly influenced (and the cynical might say determined) by the techno-economic environment in which it operates. Mass-production, which enabled both mass-consumption and as well as warfare on an unprecedented scale fostered sprawling hierarchical corporate structures serving the virtues of

The Making of a Connoisseur

I have been enjoying Earnest Samuel's two-volume biography of Bernard Berenson immensely. I became fully aware of the connoisseur of renaissance painting and history after being given a collection of personal letters written between Berenson and the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper. The "Letters from Oxford"

Glass Houses

Yesterday, I was at a customer roundtable for a company I'm involved with. B2B software companies often often host groups of sympathetic customers or would-be-customers around-a-table for a meal and to share learnings between like-minded professionals (topics often include the problem the startup

Peak Spring

T.S. Elliot wrote that April is the cruelest month and he would have found few to disagree with him in Boston. New Englanders are winter-weary and days like today (in the 40's and raining) are a gut punch. I recently listened to an excellent podcast with

Marginalia

I'd like to write more. At least I know I'd like to have written more. I suspect most people don't want daily marginalia delivered to their inboxes. This is where I'll be storing unfinished goods.