links for 2010-09-14
- Neo-Minimalism and the Rise of the Technomads – Boing Boing Good introduction to the concept of technomadism and the new minimalism. I’m not sure if these things merit -isms, but I do agree that I need to have less stuff.
- The Secret Lives of Big Pharma’s ‘Thought Leaders’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education A very interesting examination of the pharmaceutical industry’s practice of hiring Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) from the medical community to play up the benefit of new drugs.
- Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up : The New Yorker A close-up profile of Mark Zuckerberg in advance of “The Social Network”. Some salient details that were new to me. My favorite was the conference rooms named after “bad ideas”: Knife at a Gunfight, Subprime Mortgage, Beacon…