Paying Attention: Tyler Brûlé is one of the best minds in publishing, which is an inherently interesting industry that needs all the fresh minds it can gather in these days of digital downloads and low reading comprehension aspirations. Brûlé’s work first came to notice with the rather spectacular big-format glossy Wallpaper, which debuted in 1996 .While he …
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Jon Stewart On CNN’s FLT 370 Coverage
Paying Attention: It’s no secret that on this site, we have a viewpoint on what’s going on with TV news–especially CNN–regarding the Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370 disaster/catastrophe/mystery. We covered that particular topic just about 10 days ago, in the post “The Good News About Bad News”. Now, the big hitters have jumped in, including …
Jon Stewart On CNN's FLT 370 Coverage
Paying Attention: It’s no secret that on this site, we have a viewpoint on what’s going on with TV news–especially CNN–regarding the Malaysia Airlines Flt. 370 disaster/catastrophe/mystery. We covered that particular topic just about 10 days ago, in the post “The Good News About Bad News”. Now, the big hitters have jumped in, including …
The Breaking News Epidemic
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in 2015 but is just as timely–perhaps even more timely–today than when it was first released. We are going into a period of extended “breaking news” interruptions due to the chaos in Washington and the 2020 Election Year Cycle, so it’s not a bad idea to revisit the …
What’s In The Black Box ?
Reprise: Over a year ago, we published an article on the “black box” that contains flight data on airlines and the data it would contain. The article was produced in response to the massive coverage around the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flt.370. One year later, that plane is still missing, and, tragically, the …
What's In The Black Box ?
Reprise: Over a year ago, we published an article on the “black box” that contains flight data on airlines and the data it would contain. The article was produced in response to the massive coverage around the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flt.370. One year later, that plane is still missing, and, tragically, the …
The Third Annual Winter Ski Festival: Ski priority 3- Pivot Based Skiing
Paying Attention: Technique is very, very important in skiing. Bad technique in tennis and you lose the big match. Bad technique in golf and you shoot a high score. Bad technique in skiing–especially in the backcountry–and you can die. If you ski and have ambition to ski really, really well, take the time to get …
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The Third Winter Film Festival: Ski Coaching Pivot
Edgework: Skiing is about turning. No turns. No go (and probably trip to emergency room). Here’s a very short video on the pivot and why it’s necessary for controlled turning. There are slow pivots and fast pivots. Conditions (or gates) determine which one is appropriate. See the video, visualize, and realize.
Concentrate: ADHD Does Not Exist
Paying (Not Enough) Attention: Ran across this piece sometime ago and then again in looking through the archives of the site, and thought it deserved some attention (rather ironic that my attention slipped to something else, is it not): It’s on ADD/ADHD, a condition that sometimes seems a bit like an epidemic today, and the …
The Good News About Bad News
Paying Attention: The mysterious disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has gripped the world’s media–particularly the U.S. media. A giant airplane,a Boeing 777, with 239 people aboard, disappeared on 7 March 2014 about an a hour and fifteen minutes into a flight from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. Those concrete facts are about the only …