A curated set of my favorite articles from around the web this week...
Vogue: A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch
“I think now more than ever it’s important to be clear, to be singular,” he says, “and to have a perspective, one you didn’t generate as the result of doing a lot of focus groups.”
http://www.vogue.com/1415025/apple-design-genius-jonathan-ive
GQ: Can Scott Walker Unite the Republicans?
"Someday I'm going to be governor," he told his fiancée.
"And that's a 25-year-old guy saying that," the first lady of Wisconsin now says. "And I just laughed and was like, 'Seriously?' And he said, 'It might not come true. But you have to have some kind of vision.'"
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201409/scott-walker?currentPage=3
Aeon: Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future
'SpaceX is only 12 years old now,’ he told me. ‘Between now and 2040, the company’s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.’
http://aeon.co/…/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/
Brain Pickings: Tolstoy’s Reading List: Essential Books for Each Stage of Life
Under the heading “WORKS WHICH MADE AN IMPRESSION,” Tolstoy divides his reading list into five distinct life-stages — beginning with childhood and ending with his age at the time — and ranks each title by excellence, from “great” to “v. great” to “enormous.”
http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/30/leo-tolstoy-reading-list/
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