Author: Lynn Carroll, C’93
Maria Popova, C’07, is an “interestingness hunter-gatherer obsessed with combinatorial creativity.” She blogs at www.brainpickings.org and tweets prolifically @brainpicker (to 200.000+ followers, I might add). Chosen as one of the 100 Most Creative People In Business for 2012 by Fast Company, she ravenously consumes the printed—and electronic—word, curates a selection of gems from mountains of past and present information, then adds her insights as an editor – completing this process three times each day for her blog.
When not writing for her blog, the Atlantic, or Wired UK, she is a “Futures of Entertainment” fellow at MIT. One of my favorite posts of Maria’s is Words to Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses which includes snippets from, or links to, Commencement addresses by J.K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Robert Krulwich, Meryl Streep, and Jeff Bezos. Enjoy her blog, and don’t blame me if you’re not even the slightest bit productive at work for the rest of the day.
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