Mondialisation

Japanese whiskey maker Suntory Holdings is buying Beam, in a $16 billion deal that will create an international alcohols conglomerate [...]

Beam's portfolio of alcohols incdudes Jim Beam, Maker's Mark and Knob Creek bourbons, Teacher's and Laphroaig Scotch whiskies, Canadian Club whisky, Courvoisier cognac, Sauza tequila, and Pinnacle vodka. Suntory is the maker of Japanese whiskies Yamazaki, Hakushu, Hibiki, and Kakubin, Bowmore Scotch whisky and Midori liqueur.

Carte du monde

Projet intéressant d'un étudiant américain.

Listes 2013

Plus écouté dans l'autobus dans le iPod - Albums

Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Armistice

Black Keys - 2 albums

Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel

Karim Ouellet

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live

The Lumineers

The Roots - Undun

The Tallest Man on Earth - Ensemble de l'oeuvre

The xx - Coexist

Vincent Vallières

Plus écouté dans l'autobus dans le iPod - Chansons

DJ Shadow - Six Days (soulwax remix)

Drake - Forever

Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt

Metric - Breathing Underwater (la track de drum --- beat non-intuitif)

Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp

The Weeknd - High for This (à chaque atterrissage avec Air Canada)

The White Stripes - Jolene (live)

Tune-Yards - Gangsta

Podcast

This American Life

Longreads

Politique

Obama vs. Boehner - Who Killed the Debt Deal ? (http://www.instapaper.com/read/268080560)

Joe Biden in GQ on Being President in 2016 (http://www.instapaper.com/read/399845588)

When the Nerds Go Marching In (http://www.instapaper.com/read/339747784)

Sports

Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building (http://www.instapaper.com/read/362266422)

The Oklahoma City Thunder's Fairy-Tale Rise (http://www.instapaper.com/read/349517353)

Montaous Walton Just Wanted to Play Ball (http://www.instapaper.com/read/390146077)

Pitcher Tomohiro Anraku is the future of Japanese baseball (http://www.instapaper.com/read/401644931)

20 minutes at Rucker Park (http://www.instapaper.com/read/422997313)

Technologie / Gestion

Winamp's Woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (http://www.instapaper.com/read/349523238)

Letter to a young programmer considering a startup (http://www.instapaper.com/read/388551679)

Marissa Mayer Biography (http://www.instapaper.com/read/410445356)

All if Fair in Love and Twitter (http://www.instapaper.com/read/421231301)

Tim Armstrong, Patch, and AOL (http://www.instapaper.com/read/427918224)

Saroo's Google Earth Quest : How an Orphaned Boy Found His Way Home (http://www.instapaper.com/read/329177466)

Divers

The Making of Pulp Fiction (http://www.instapaper.com/read/362290964)

What the Bagel Man Saw (http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/bagelman.html)

You Owe Me (http://www.instapaper.com/read/339747784)

Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up (http://www.instapaper.com/read/349513939)

Paintballing with Hezbollah (http://www.instapaper.com/read/349513772)

The Paradox of the Proof (http://www.instapaper.com/read/385618872)

If it was a pill, you'd do anything to get it (http://www.instapaper.com/read/382233023)

The Evolution of a First Novel (http://www.instapaper.com/read/379970030)

Imagining Myself in Palestine (http://www.instapaper.com/read/285424490)

The Deliverymen's Uprising (http://www.instapaper.com/read/422999910)

How a Relationship Brought Me Halfway Around the World and Back Again (http://www.instapaper.com/read/416782631)

Inside the World of Double-Crossing Fake Hitman (http://www.instapaper.com/read/431817826)

CV

Tout le monde est responsable, stratégique et créatif.

Linkdump

Kelleher de Southwest Airlines
Rendu là : http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2013/06/10/toc.html

Personnalisation

Après la production de masse et la personnalisation de masse, est-ce qu'Internet permettra la personnalisation extrême à un prix intéressant ?  Voir pixeli.st et hatch.co.

Les petits détails

La préparation des ballons dans la NFL.  Intense.

Marissa Mayer

Le type de CEO qui entre dans le détail.

One Yahoo executive told me that before Mayer arrived, “what was missing was leadership from the very top, which was able to cut to the chase and get some tough decisions made, get focused in the right places, get the sense of urgency, and also somebody who could really be the chief quality control leader of the company.”

La réalité dépasse la fiction

Putin dans les pages éditoriales du NY Times.
On se croirait dans un épisode de The West Wing ou The Newsroom.

Écrire et lire des phrases et des paragraphes

La puissance de l'écriture structurée et de la lecture attentive.

Jeff Bezos likes to read. That's a dog-bites-man revelation if ever there was one, considering that Bezos is the cerebral founder and chief executive of a $100 billion empire built on books. More revealing is that the Amazon CEO's fondness for the written word drives one of his primary, and peculiar, tools for managing his company: Meetings of his "S-team" of senior executives begin with participants quietly absorbing the written word. Specifically, before any discussion begins, members of the team -- including Bezos -- consume six-page printed memos in total silence for as long as 30 minutes. (Yes, the e-ink purveyor prefers paper. Ironic, no?) They scribble notes in the margins while the authors of the memos wait for Bezos and his minions to finish reading.
Amazon executives call these documents "narratives," and even Bezos realizes that for the uninitiated -- and fans of the PowerPoint presentation -- the process is a bit odd. "For new employees, it's a strange initial experience," he tells Fortune. "They're just not accustomed to sitting silently in a room and doing study hall with a bunch of executives." Bezos says the act of communal reading guarantees the group's undivided attention. Writing a memo is an even more important skill to master. "Full sentences are harder to write," he says. "They have verbs. The paragraphs have topic sentences. There is no way to write a six-page, narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking."

(via Fortune)