mchafkin

did you read the story? we discuss the very disagreement you reference.

my two cents on this is that even if the hyperloop doesn't pan out all, the tunnel project could still be a big deal. If you stick regular state of the art high speed trains in musk's hypothetical NY-DC tunnel, that would be worthwhile.

the crazy thing is most people who heard that talk seemed quite taken -- despite the outrageousness of the whole thing (for instance, the comparison to EVs and the end of slavery)

Did you see the Shai Agassi hologram?

I'm so happy somebody brought up his wacky paragraph about steelhead trout that classified them as a "fancy" rainbow trout, which is like exactly how Glenn Beck would have put it. It's exactly the kind of equivocating BS that a professional editor would have caught and cut.

Also, there's some irony that Parker chose to publish this rant about click bait (and other journalistic sins) in Techcrunch.

I would guess that the median New Yorker staff writer gets more like $150-200k, all in (when you add up magazine fees + book advances + speaking fees.) The mean is much higher, because a handful of outliers (heh, Gladwell) make $1 million plus.

That wasn't the executive editor of the NYT, that was Clay Shirky, the news-should-be-free guru. (Referenced here: http://www.sundance.org/festival/article/qa-page-one-a-year-...)

He wasn't speaking on behalf of the Times, he was speaking as an observer who is pretty firmly against pay walls. If you asked someone at the Times what their pay wall is, they'd say its the good old retail news model: Asking customers to pay money for your product.

The fact that artists are getting screwed by publishers is not a justification to screw them harder. I wish people spent more time imagining ways to pay for the arts rather than just coming up with arguments for why it's OK to download a song without paying for it.

The New York Times took on this topic a few years back in a very good article that argued that the whole idea of the 8-hour sleep was invented by the mattress industry (and other purveyors of sleep products), and that humans don't need anywhere near 8 hours of continuous sleep.

Ironically, all of the industry's marketing makes people anxious about getting enough sleep--and makes it harder for them to get to sleep (thus propagating the need for more expensive mattresses and pillows.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18sleep-t.html?pa...

I take exception to this point--You want a table? Make a table--But so you know: There are very few stats on reverse migration because the U.S. government stopped tracking it in 1957. There have been some really great studies academic studies, if you're interested in checking them out.

http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/immigration-and-...

But even these studies are pretty small and fairly limited. Definitely more research is needed into this area.

I didn't work on this year's list, but I've worked on them in years' past. The bottom line: It's a subjective list--based on reporting by Inc.'s editors and writers (basically we talk to people and ask them who they admire/who they think should be on the list). We assemble a long list of names and narrow it down to 30, based a sense of who we feel is most impressive and most interesting.

One of the cool things about this list is that it's a one-shot deal, so we'll be looking for 30 new names next year. You can send nominations to [email protected]

Or put them in the comments here and we'll find them.

Thanks for reading!

just an FYI: I recorded this video as a compendium to a June 2009 cover story on YC. That article is here

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090601/the-start-up-guru-y-com...

Just an FYI to those who haven't seen it in print: "How to Get Good at Making Money" is the cover-line we used for the hard-copy.

you might want to try "magazine view"

https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/FC/ICM/10for997.jsp?cds_page_id=5...

(Jason's article is the cover story this month.)