Words matter. These are the best James Fallows Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it’s reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on ‘Dreams From My Father,’ was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
I’ve learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being ‘sarcastic.’
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we’ve come from the cuddly old ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google’s evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
No one ever really ‘learns’ from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
Contrary to what you might think, China’s economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the ‘Boston Phoenix.’ I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of ‘real’ rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
I am about as pro-Google a person as you’re going to find in the media. I’ve had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.
When a company is charging money for a product – as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync – you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued development.
Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China’s continued development. That’s according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
