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Wednesday linkfest

Here are this weeks links:

• A story of working for the New Yorker. The good news is it’s candid and tightly written. The bad news is it’s written in twitter – here’s the archived and easier to read version.
• Small and Special (Seattle) – event in Seattle on June 30th about people who run small and special companies. Run by Hillel from Jackson Fish Market
• Obesity and overweight trends in the U.S. – if only you could buy stock in how fat we are.
• The makers of things. Nice essay on one of my favorite objects in the world – The Brooklyn bridge (here’s my essay on lessons from it)
• Stats on twitter use – it’s a small sample size but the data says about 5% of Americans use twitter.
• The paradoxes of lectures – there’s no way around it. There are strange things about the world of lectures and the quality of speakers. Here’s 3 observations.