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Marginalia

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

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" are hilarious,

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 is solving). I suspect AI

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 Paul

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.