Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for September 12th from 20:22 to 10:38:

• Untitled (http://www.amazon.com/review/R35QCHBAKZV6DE/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0465018475) – Am reading Surfaces & Essences (on analogy as 'fuel and fire' of thinking); love the ideas, but as an editor, agree w
• Learning How to Exert Self-Control – NYTimes.com – PARIS — NOT many Ivy League professors are associated with a type of candy. But Walter Mischel, a professor of psychology at Columbia, doesn’t mind being one of…
• Destiny Review – It’s called the Black Garden. You see it from a clifftop above, gazing across the blooming acres through a thick green haze, and imagine the sights that might…
• The Myth of Magical Futures – Despite its (now frequently mocked) claims to meritocracy, Silicon Valley loves its hierarchies. However, because these hierarchies often look somewhat…
• Competition Is for Losers – Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits. Javier Jaén
  What valuable company is nobody building?…