An Assortment of thoughts
This article is a submission for the Budding Writers Scholarship Contest Instructions- Personal Essay.I won the Personal Essay category.
You can find the original submission on Scholarship@Western including the PDF of the article.
The history and business of trading Human Attention
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu is about the history and business of how people trade human attention. Human attention is arguably the most precious commodity in modern history, so this book studies the different ways this valuable asset has been acquired and used over the years.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably not racist. But you might be complicit in racism.
I’m not saying this to judge anyone because:
Your anger is the media’s opportunity
(My riff on Jeff Bezos’ famous aphorism: “Your margin is my opportunity”)
Two years ago, I was travelling to a developing country to do some charity work. My bags were packed, flights were booked, and my hotel was ready for check-in. Unfortunately, immediately I arrived at the airport, I had to cancel my trip.
I asked Professor Janssen, if anyone in my 9:20 Sales Foundations class wanted to switch to the 3:50 class.
Since this is the Sales Foundation class, he suggested that if I wanted to switch I would have to make a pitch.
One of the less-talked about benefits of reading is being able to “humble brag” about all the books you’ve read.
On a completely unrelated note, here are the best Books I read in 2019.
If one of your goals is to read more in the new year, you should start with these books.
Lebron Inc. by Brian Windhorst is about how Lebron has built his business empire from his Freshman year in St. Vincent St. Mary’s in Akron in 2001 (tk verify Lebron high school freshman year) to his new team Los Angeles Lakers in 2019.
