The litter in littérateur. Ricky Opaterny on Books, Music, Art, and Sports

Can someone explain this? Is there a women’s version too?

I’ve frequently doubted the effectiveness of business frameworks as they’re used in companies and schools. However, I have realized that frameworks are very good at doing one thing: they allow people to pretend that decisions that should be subjective, political, and emotional are actually objective, technical, and quantitative.

• MA should put Atul Gawande in Kennedy's vacant Senate seat. Brilliant! http://bit.ly/1dmohE #
• Just read Evan Ratliff's 2005 NYer piece, "The Zombie Hunters"–good stuff: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/zh #
• RT @lmcintire IKEA bookshelf, how does it feel do [sic] get totally owned? That's what I thought. [How does it feel to get sic'd?] #
• …et al, I'm warning you, @ChrisButterick is going to be in town next weekend. Beware. #
• "…a critic is nothing without an authoritative posture…against which an opposing outlook or proposition can be tested." -C. Ozick #

• That's just Roger being Roger: http://bit.ly/16Qvi1 #
• US doctors overwhelmingly want a public option or single payer: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp0907876.pdf #
• When will pubs realize that subscription fees for apps suck? Make us pay a larger one-time fee rather than a small, incremental fee forever. #
• Condé Nast hired McKinsey to help them cut costs. This can't be good for my beloved @NewYorkerDotCom http://bit.ly/37Rb2F #McKinseyFAIL #
• I'm surprised that Doug Glanville didn't mention the athlete most recently cited for having kept it real: LeBron James. http://bit.ly/PHWxJ #
• Just saw the film Botany of Desire based on Michael Pollan's excellent book. Wondering when the long tail concept will come to food. #

• The issues with using Adobe CS3 with Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/NfiE6 #
• Ugh. I started reading the @NYTimes in high school because I didn't want to read about California! http://cnt.to/hDo (via @paidcontent) #
• Screening of the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers film version of Where the Wild Things Are in SF on 9/30 http://bit.ly/qfFXD #
• Police checkpoint on 19th heading south. Stay away–big traffic headache. #
• Picked up a signed copy of the new Lorrie Moore novel from @greenappleguy tonight. You should do the same! #
• People in Cole overheard my trying to remember yesterday's dinner, "I didn't have dinner. Nothing @CafeGratitude could count as dinner." #
• RT @mistahmoogle: @ricky_o, I told the Jiggaman to use the patented Ricky O. "Sup!" on his new song. http://blip.fm/~cxmda #
• RT @Emdashes: The NYer Festival schedule is up! http://bit.ly/mxK5T #
• Four tickets for $3 each, Lincecum scratched from his scheduled start, Giants loss. I guess you get what you pay for. #
• Forget the new iPods, this is the product announced today that I'll pine for: http://bit.ly/mEeNt #
• RT @vincelin: judy gave birth at 9:55 am to 7 lb 6 ounce vince jr. #

• Took BP at MA yesterday with @tylershores in 102-degree weather. #
• Listening to a great Fresh Air interview with Ted Kennedy from a few years ago: http://bit.ly/15BRtD #
• How is it that the New Yorker and NYTM both run profiles of the Bryan brothers in the same week? #
• PlayRadioPlay is a total Postal Service ripoff but still fun listening. #
• Had a Zuni Cafe burger for lunch. But where was @albertkchen? #
• Horray! A new book from Lorrie Moore and a profile of her in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/books/02moore.html #
• Can someone explain why the Gmail outage is a big deal? Are you really that dependent? Enable POP and use your own client + mail server. #
• Jonny Greenwood: MP3s encourage people "to own far more music than they can ever give their full attention to." http://bit.ly/32GrAX #
• Better yet, send a postcard or pick up the phone. #
• How to reverse "the victory of whatever can be quantified over everything that can't"? #
• More mags should be using their iPhone apps to drive sales of physical product like the Economist. #
• BlackBerry Desktop for the Mac is like three iPhones too late for me. #
• Okay, so who else got the I Am T-Pain iPhone app? @albertkchen #
• Found myself wishing my MacBook Pro had a fax modem today. #