Rich Ziade is partner and lead strategist at Arc90, notable for many things including creation of the wondrous Readability app.
(Ed. note: We know: One of the stories below is from 2009, and another is from 2007.)
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• Paul Graham ruminates over the deflationary value of stuff.
• Zak Smith debates which is more offensive: the porn industry or Tyra Banks exploiting the porn industry in Barely Legal Whores Get Gang-F***ed.
• The New York Times (Wyatt Mason) deep dives into the mind of The Wired’s David Simon.
• The New Yorker (Nick Paumgarten) profiles John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods.
• The CBC investigation (by Neil Macdonald) of the assassination of Lebanon’s prime minister Rafik Hariri plays like an international procedural thriller. Ben Affleck as the protagonist?
