Tag: The New Yorker

Apples to Apples to Ice Cream Trucks: The Current Numeric Verdict is In

Much has been made this week of Apple becoming the most valuable company in history (as long as you ignore inflation). One comparo really caught me eye, though, which is this pull-quote, which had lain entombed within a New Yorker-length article in Vanity Fair until Forbes was kind enough to pull out this pull-quote […]

A Long-Writer Cozies Up to 140 Characters and 500 Words

And so it begins. In March 2009 I grabbed @JFRQ, my first Twitter handle, and immediately posted the oh-so-neither-profound-nor-interesting tweet, “Just established myself on Twitter.” A few months after grabbing @JFRQ (did you know that the genesis of the entire JFRQ naming milieu rests on how it was always easy […]

Opening Post

I well remember someone saying to me, after my last group email sent earlier this year, “Can’t you write shorter?” To which I thought, “These are New Yorker like pieces (in quantity, if not quality), and aren’t scaled to be little blurbs,” but later which had me thinking, “Maybe it […]