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dillardsarah

  1. @shiyankoh :-)
  2. Quit early, quit often. youtube.com/watch?v=D73mm2… Advice to HBS graduates from @profmalhotra. Well worth the hour.
  3. Just clapped with delight on noticing this week's theme for The New Yorker is sci-fi.
  4. The Family Dinner--a fascinating topic for a book. nytimes.com/2012/04/29/fas…
  5. The point at which you re-write your past rather than dream about the future. What The Sense of an Ending was about, for me.
  6. Mine too. "This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like literature," Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
  7. Reading fiction for an hour in the morning makes work days feel like vacation. Taking down Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad.
  8. Beautiful day in Boston. twitter.com/dillardsarah/s…
  9. How did I miss this? Moto polo makes the NYT: nytimes.com/2012/05/09/spo… #rwanda
  10. confirmation bias feels so good. “@bakadesuyo: What's the secret to amazing naps? goo.gl/6gr2v
  11. @paulisaachsen But would Lamont let an 11 year old work on problem sets in the basement al night? forbes.com/sites/joshuaga…
  12. Smarter Budgets, Smarter Schools is so good I've been reading it while standing in line. amazon.com/Smarter-Budget… cc @SarahEmilyShah @bpweekly
  13. @teisenmann Have you read? RT @margrev Jim Manzi's Uncontrolled: The subtitle is the Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business...
  14. @paulisaachsen Yes. Romer outlines the concept in an interview w Kling & Schulz in the terrific book From Poverty to Prosperity.