reading

summer reading connects to the shock doctrine

In business, grad school, politics, reading on 6 July 2008 with no comments

After years of sitting on my “should read” list, I’m finally reading Naomi Klein’s No Logo. Granted I’m only 40 pages in, but I’ve already had a revelatory moment that given that the tactics of branding and marketing changed in the early 1990s, I have little to no context about how the world looked before […]

times diary: 2/10/08

In personal, reading on 10 February 2008 with no comments

I woke up to my phone ringing, my friend on the other end of the phone wanted to confirm our plant to meet at the Temescal Farmer’s market. Before showering, I looked down my stairwell to see the little blue bag sitting inside the door. Picking up the paper Sunday morning is a key part […]