Who runs Trader Joe’s?
Fascinating profile of two German brothers, billionaires, and their global discount retail empire which includes Trader Joe’s.
Category: business
Silvio, the renewable energy rich playboys of Portugal await your electric Ferraris.
The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based ...
Will computers in 2050 finally look like the ones we imagined in the 1950s?
A user on MetaFilter has argued that a well designed item is that which lasts a long time – or, perhaps, an item which the owner values for a long time. Here...
Omni. Meaning lots of links and not that magazine with the cool covers from yesteryear. Sadly.
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
Chinese Barbizon
Peter Hessler‘s essay “Chinese Barbizon” in the The New Yorker is fantastic: gentle characterizations, arresting ideas, fascinating details. It dovetails ...