September 2011
10 posts
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
Why I'll never cook (why cooking will save me)
“What cooking did for me cannot be overstated. It was my first constructive hobby, my first real learned craft. It was an organizing principle for seeing the cities in which I lived as well as those I visited. It became the basis for socializing as an adult. Instead of smoking pot and eating junk food, I was learning to sauté chicken breasts, serve them with green-peppercorn cream sauce,...
Mouthful of Diamonds by Phantogram (The Jackals...
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Long reads →
I’ve noticed on weekends I become desperate for longer form journalism. I get tired of reading tweets, status updates, quotes. It’s becoming increasing obvious that we need to have access to thoughts, stories and profiles with actual adverbs, adjectives and a logical progression. So, I fortunately found this link. I managed to waste (a relative term) a lot of time already on exactly...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra by Ffunny Friends
Lifetime Value →
A really interesting concept of what the value of a customer is. For Starbucks, each average customer is worth $14,000 over 20 years.
Salt Lake City
I did some quick numbers of Salt Lake City, specifically looking at 20-40 year olds and mormons.
The population of Utah in 2010 was 2,763,000.
In the Salt Lake Metropolitan area the population in 2010 was 1,124,000.
For the ages of 20-40 years old in Utah the population was about 850,000.
If you extrapolate Utah’s population that lives in the Salt Lake Metro area, the population of...