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Petermann had become the guiding spirit behind the expedition—its primary theoretician, its éminence grise.
Hampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
At the end of February 2008, I was lucky enough to read Adam Gopnik’s great New Yorker piece about the long-lived worldwide tribe of magicians. Jamy Ian Swiss embodies, in some ways, the leadership I’m talking about.
Seth Godin • Tribes: We need you to lead us
perspicacious
John Howe • Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
Maurice Nicoll,
John Cleese • Professor at Large: The Cornell Years
Frank believes our culture lacks mythology. He doesn’t mean fictional stories but the big narratives that help humanity understand our world. He writes that while science has filled that gap in terms of understanding, we’re lacking the power of stories.
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
21st Century False Gods
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he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
colorfully grotesque print by Alex Grey, the dean of American psychedelic artists.