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He is painfully aware of his celebrity. The nature of it and the responsibility that it imposes are constantly on his mind. He remembers people’s names, and greets them by name when he sees them again. He seems to want to prove that he finds other people interesting. “The main thing I have to prevent myself from becoming is disillusioned with
... See moreJohn McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
Or consider the line drawn by Mr. Jaffe at the candy store around our corner—a line so well understood by his customers and by other storekeepers too that they can spend their whole lives in its presence and never think about it consciously. One ordinary morning last winter, Mr. Jaffe, whose formal business name is Bernie, and his wife, whose
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
At Princeton, Bradley has become such an excellent basketball player that it is necessary to look beyond college basketball to find a standard that will put him in perspective. The standard’s name is Oscar Robertson, of the Cincinnati Royals, who is the finest basketball player yet developed. Robertson, who is known in basketball as The O, stands
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The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Watch What They Do, Not What They Say
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

The Entrepreneur is easy to recognize when encountered. This is the person who is afflicted by a monomaniacal fever, who cannot not be an entrepreneur. There are others, though, who do not fit the template, such as Louis Borders, who had left the game, or thought he had, until he was hit with a singular inspiration and could not not test the Big
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
The Lost Art of Thank-You Notes
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
The junior man was Frank Lloyd Wright.