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Las Vegas’ Downtown Project & Tony Hsieh
I admire rich people who do something creative with their money instead of just buying more stuff.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappo, lives in Las Vegas and brought his company there, then started what’s known as the Downtown Project, which uses $350 million of his own money to revitalize what was the town’s main street before The Strip — this roughly in the 1930s, I’m told.
I was just in Las Vegas briefly a
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In America, our revolutionaries always seem to be cultural or economic. We started with political revolutionaries, but unique in history, they were all lawyers. This is why, I figure, our revolution fared better than those that quickly followed – the ...more |
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The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work:
"I’m not a musician, but luckily that isn’t required of the reader. This book is a collection of stories about tuba players, makers, sellers, and lovers, and about band directors and music educators. Each story honors the passion and discipline that g"
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"I really loved this book. I am not a tuba player, but played in band from elementary school to high school. This book is more than about the tuba, it is about band and music education and the tuba. It had me really wanting to take out my own instrume"
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"A rambling somewhat biographical narrative not only about the York CC tubas, but people important to the tuba world and really the band world at large. I think this is a pretty optimistic outlook on our field from a rambling Atlantic-style writer, wh"
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In 1988, I moved to Stockton, California for a job as the crime reporter for the Record, the town’s daily newspaper. Stockton, in California's Central Valley, was surrounded by tomato fields and almond orchards, and vineyards up by Lodi. A robust farm ...more |
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Early in his life, the painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967) went to Paris, which was where young artists of the time aspired to live. Impressionism and modern art were in vogue. Picasso, Matisse, and others. I was struck reading this book that Hopper vi ...more |
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I came up in the 1970s, and Elvis Presley was a cynical joke to me. He was fat, coddled, Las Vegas-y. He made bad movies rather than essential rocknroll. Growing up in Southern California, I was deep into rock, roots music, R&B, country, but I never l ...more |
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“The front of the brain has to develop through mistakes. But the first reaction of the addicted person is to head back to the family: ‘Will you rescue me?’ Whatever the person’s rescued from, there’s no learning. There’s no experiences, no frontal brain development. They’re doing well and then some idea comes into their head and they’re off a cliff. It may not be a decision to use. Most relapse comes not from the craving for the drug. It comes from this whole other level of unmanageability, putting myself in compromising situations, or being dishonest, being lazy—being a fifteen-year-old.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
“Through all this, patients were getting used to demanding drugs for treatment. They did not, however, have to accept the idea that they might, say, eat better and exercise more, and that this might help them lose weight and feel better. Doctors, of course, couldn’t insist. As the defenestration of the physician’s authority and clinical experience was under way, patients didn’t have to take accountability for their own behavior.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
“The U.S. medical system is good at fighting disease, Cahana believes, and awful at leading people to wellness.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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