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Weekend Reads 3

top stories of the week

This Week’s Stories: media, tech, small biz, and culture

By Jeff Howland

Apple Designer Jonathon Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products

John Arlidge,TIME

Apple’s design chief helped transform computing, phones and music. The company’s secrecy and Ive’s modesty mean he has never given an in-depth interview—until now.

What it Feels Like to be Washed Up at 35

Noam Scheiber, New Republic
The Brutal Ageism of Tech Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete
. Silicon Valley has become one of the most ageist places in America. Tech luminaries who otherwise pride themselves on their dedication to meritocracy don’t think twice about deriding the not-actually-old. “Young people are just smarter,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told an audience at Stanford back in 2007.

Building the Next Pixar

Evie Nagy, Fast Company

Some of Pixar’s most illustrious alums, steeped for decades in Pixar’s potent creative culture, reveal how they apply the company’s philosophies of success to their own ventures–and you can, too.

The Newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale)

Ken Doctor, Neiman Journalism Lab
Project Thunderdome is dead and DFM will soon put its newspapers on the auction block. Are the new rounds of investors who bought into newspapers over the past half-decade getting antsy?

Fighting Over the Field of Dreams

Adam Doster, The Atlantic
A quarter century ago, in rural Iowa, a Hollywood crew built a temporary baseball diamond for a now-classic movie. Maintained as a tourist attraction since, the field has recently been sold, and a developer’s new plans for it are dividing some of the community’s landowners. Which raises a curious question: Should the field’s fake authenticity be preserved?

Have a good weekend.

 

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