Inside Montblanc’s Century of Leather Party With Alexandra Daddario, Seo Kangjun and Paul Anthony Kelly

Espresso martinis and mezcal highballs circulated on silver trays as the Crane Club filled up Tuesday night, with Montblanc clearing the restaurant’s tables and arranging leather goods, writing instruments and an oversize Writing Traveler installation throughout the room. In the mix was Alexandra Daddario, carrying a Montblanc bag with a pen cleverly built into it.…

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Business Signage Sways 84% of Shoppers, New Survey Finds

Your sign is doing more selling than you think, according to a national survey Signarama released September 8. Eighty-four percent of Americans said business signage influences whether they buy from a company, and 39% said they have walked in purely because of what was hanging outside. That is a conversion channel most founders never optimize.…

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Mining dependence, rising borrowings strain Chhattisgarh finances: NCAER

Chhattisgarh’s dependence on mining revenues and its growing reliance on borrowings are constraining the state’s fiscal sustainability and its capacity to invest for the future, according to a new working paper released by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).   The study, titled “Assessing the Fiscal Dynamics of Chhattisgarh State: A Comparative Study…

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Anthropic Insiders Casually Admit AI Could “Kill All Humans”

Researchers on the frontier of artificial intelligence are sounding the alarm on the likelihood that their products will cause a mass extinction event. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who trains AI models, announced his resignation from Anthropic Tuesday night in a series of posts claiming that AI companies are approaching an “endgame” race that could kill…

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Can You Write a Memoir in the Third Person?

The first-person insights of memoir serve epiphany and discovery, as though all confessions are truthful. The distance of third person makes these moments of reflection more meaningful, as though part of the book’s journey is young B’s discovery of a language that might capture how he feels inside. Occasionally, Dillon writes in the second person,…

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