1. Poke the Box, Seth Godin

“If you don’t finish, it doesn’t really count as starting, and if you don’t start, you’re not poking.”

2. Biophysicist Opens Genetic Black Box, Wired

“Being unentangled is entropically unfavorable,” he says. “Equilibrium for a long chain is to be knotted.”

3. Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky

“with a large enough crowd, unpredictable events become predictable.”

4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell

“Water sloshes, the sea’s belly churns, and the pumps clunk and squelp.”

5. The Explicit Gospel, Matt Chandler

“and butts in the seat.”