Adam Mansbach is a white boy from an affluent Boston suburb who’s devoted himself to hip hop culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs." At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?
Andy Ross and Sean Weitner put up on the Internet (at the Flak Magazine website) their audio commentary on David Lynch’s film “Mulholland Drive.” They talk about it with Jim Fleming, and we hear clips of the film and the commentary.
Somalia didn’t have a written language until the 1970's, and today, many if not most Somalis still live within an oral tradition. And in that tradition the poet is king.
Novelist Ana Menendez talks about her book “Loving Che.” She reads a passage and they discuss the real Che Guevara and his impact on Latin America.
Alaa Al Aswany is one of the top-selling novelists in the Arab world, but because copyright protections are weak there, he still works part-time as a dentist.
Doug Gordon profiles Anne Beatts, one of the original writers for the groundbreaking late night comedy series "Saturday Night Live".
Anne Rice, queen of the vampire novel, talks about her obsession with good and evil and the search for meaning. She says the Eucharist looms behind behind her vampire stories.
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