Category Archives: Culture Consumed

Things I’ve read, watched, seen.

Dead Man

Posted on June 16, 2007 by Tzaddi

We just finished watching Dead Man, probably one of the strangest movies I’ve ever watched (and liked…). Johnny Depp plays a mild-mannered accountant who travels across country for a job and quickly ends up a desperado in the wild west, … Continue reading →

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Scott Berkun, Myth of Innovation

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Tzaddi

Last night I attended Scott Berkun‘s lecture covering some of the topics from his book The Myth of Innovation (thanks, VanUE!). It was enlightening and a good laugh. Mostly the discussion was around the perceptions of innovation (epiphany, genious, etc.) … Continue reading →

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Nickel and Dimed

Posted on December 31, 2005 by Tzaddi

Just finished “Nickel and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America”. What a powerful book. Barbara Ehrenreich, in the face of US welfare reforms, decided to investigate the lives behind the rhetoric. She went “undercover” working minimum wage jobs in … Continue reading →

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