Tag: Jeff Bezos

This journey is made of many steps

By the time you’re 75, your heart will have beat 2.5 billion times. It takes about 5 million steps to hike the Appalachian trail. You’ll spend over 2 million minutes in school by the time...

/ December 16, 2013

Missed Connections, ‘Hunger Games’ camp and why the midwest is the smartest region

Everyone, everywhere, read this. It’s an incredible post on Brooklyn’s Missed Connections page on Craigslist. I wish I had written this. “At ‘Hunger Games’ camp, children want to fight to the ‘death.'” Here’s a kind of...

/ August 9, 2013

Thoughts from a journalist on Jeff Bezos buying The Washington Post

You don’t have to work in journalism to care that Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, has just laid down a quarter of a billion dollars to purchase The Washington Post. A lot of journalists...

/ August 7, 2013