August 2010
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Inside the Secret World of Trader Joe's  →
Check out this illuminating piece by Fortune magazine on hands down my favorite grocery store: Trader Joe’s.  The article is a good balance of prose describing the Trader Joe’s experience and analysis of the business model.  For example, on TJ’s limited selection:   “Studies have found that buyers enjoy purchases more if they know the pool of options isn’t quite so...
Aug 25th
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Aug 24th
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Overnight Busrides in India →
Shameless plug, but check out my first Huffington Post article on my experiences on overnight buses in India!
Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Ask UnpoppedCollar: Part II
Thanks for following along, LackingContext!  My recent travels were essentially an “I survived grad school!” trip to celebrate the end of my thesis, econometrics (forever) and problem sets.  I traveled with my friend I’ve known since Gymboree and we wanted to go someplace we had never been. I’m all for random adventures, and when I pitched the idea of Scandinavia and the...
Aug 19th
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Aug 18th
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Aug 17th
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TBD.com and the Hyperlocal Future of Journalism
I spend a lot of time thinking about how digital technologies are changing the shape of media today (in fact I wrote a thesis about its political implications — if you have the energy and lack-of-foresight to want to read it, check out Facebook, Twitter and Barack Obama: New media and the 2008 Presidential Election).  One of the best sources discussing this today is Leo Laporte’s This...
Aug 17th
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Aug 16th
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Five Awesome Off-The-Beaten-Path Spots in...
Thanks for the question, Crazyhazey!  I’m nearing my 2nd anniversary of arriving in DC, so I’m happy to provide a couple of recommendations for cool places to check out that are off-the-beaten-tourist-path (afterall, anyone can tell you that the Jefferson is pretty nice).  Here are 5 of my favorite spots to check out (but shhh…don’t tell too many people!) 1....
Aug 16th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 13th
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Our Building at the National Building Museum
The best part of the National Building Museum in DC?  They have lots of building blocks to play with so of course we started building.  Needing to compete with the 5-year-olds around us, we decided instead of building the standard huge tower of blocks around us, we would create a model of Bunche Hall at UCLA.  We only made it to 3 of the 12 stories because we felt bad stealing all of the blocks...
Aug 12th
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Aug 10th
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Aug 9th
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DC's Jazz in the Garden
Sure, people in DC love to complain about how hot and humid it is here in July, but Summers in the District also bring something else: Jazz in the Garden.  Every Friday evening, nearly every twenty-something (it seems) in DC heads out to the Sculpture Garden for a makeshift picnic-happy-hour.  It’s hard to imagine a better way to start the weekend than this.    Bros in the Garden.
Aug 9th
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Aug 4th
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