The Cure for the Common Bore

Do you find yourself downright BORING because all you can talk about is work?

Then check out Arts and Letters Daily, a website that compiles in briefs (or longer if you want) the day’s best articles and writing on philosophy, trends, aesthetics, language, breakthroughs, ideas, disputes, gossip, art, criticism, culture, history and music.

Compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the site http://www.aldaily.com/ is a must for the busy CEO (or even the aspiring one). Samples from today: why pre-obits could save newspapers, how the Order of the Assassins in the 11^th Century was one of the most lethal terrorist groups ever, what makes communists laugh and how humans transformed themselves from just another predatory ape into an animal that dominates the world.

In a sense, it’s like the old reader’s Digest format, but without Humor In Uniform. And the editors compile their work from a much wider range of tastes, from the CIA Studies to Salon, Wired, Slate, the American Conservative and the New Left Review. In short, the whole range of thought.

So next time you’re heading to catch that plane or drop in on that party, spend five minutes brushing up on the rest of your life. It might even help you make a sale!