Where Good Ideas Come From

On
Friday, I got the galley copies of my new book, to be published in early
October. It’s called Where Good…

Today’s Sunday New York Times included a column of mine in the business section which tried to think about the App Store’s tremendous rate of innovation over the past two years, and the clear benefit it has had for small developers. My general point was that, while…

I have to admit when the good folks at Riverhead mentioned that they were working on an animated video promoting Where Good Ideas Come From, I wasn’t fully convinced it was going to be worth the effort. But the absolutely brilliant video they produced with Cognitive…

In today’s New York Times I have an essay responding to Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Shallows. While I disagree with the overarching conclusions of Nick’s book, it’s a great read and wonderfully written, with many fascinating detours through the history of media and technology. I encourage…

There’s a lovely and typically astute installment of “The Intellectual Situation” in the latest n+1, which in my book is the most interesting small magazine to appear in at least a decade, that takes on the topic of what they call “webism.” It’s worth reading in…

I’m writing this on the plane flying back after a ten day trip circumnavigating the globe. I started in Oxford (for the wonderful TEDGlobal conference) where my wife and I walked alongside the ancient wall built around the original town limits. I…

One of my very favorite writers, Robert Wright, had an interesting Opinionator post at the NY Times site this week, which revolved around the question of Steve Jobs’ alleged lust for power and why he was making the same mistakes with the iPhone that led…

I wrote a little essay for Time.com on the iPad launch (and the reactions to it.) Here’s the opening riff: