Thoughts, pointers, and updates on travel, writing, baseball, the arts, and whatever else I find compelling. I’m Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT. I study how technology is changing the business world. You can contact me via email (amcafee at mit edu) or Twitter (@amcafee) My professional blog is here.Tumblr (3.0; @amcafee)http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/Novelist Jennifer Haigh is one of my best friends, but that&#8217;s not going to stop me from...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/17046393086http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/17046393086Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:07:00 -0500Were any of us expecting the outpouring of sentiment after Steve Jobs died? He was a billionaire CEO...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/11411414778http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/11411414778Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:50:25 -0400I love my adopted home of Boston with all my heart, but the winters here profoundly suck. Yes, the...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/10497015550http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/10497015550Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:13:13 -0400If you&#8217;re raised by industrious Midwestern near-teetotalers as I was, you don&#8217;t aspire...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/8514353921http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/8514353921Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:27:15 -0400A few years ago I went to MoMA and headed, as I always do, for the design galleries on the 3rd...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/7455939998http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/7455939998Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:19:18 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnxqghRwfI1qht4tto1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Perfect summer night at Fenway. 1-1, top of 2nd.</p>http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/7320193859http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/7320193859Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:26:40 -0400I don&#8217;t mean to pick a fight with Florence + The Machine and I love the song, but I...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6948432790http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6948432790Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:38:57 -0400Am I the only one left? Who gets annoyed any more? When presenters engage in uptalk? When they end...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6488415734http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6488415734Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:46:29 -0400Poland now has the 6th largest economy in Europe, and was the only country on the continent to...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6004381304http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/6004381304Mon, 30 May 2011 12:35:00 -0400No, not my anti-Scrabble rant on CBC last Friday (starts at 23:40), which was based on this post. I...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5767179835http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5767179835Mon, 23 May 2011 10:19:15 -0400A great recent article by Sam Sacks in Open Letters Monthly reminded me that one of the most...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5581431582http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5581431582Tue, 17 May 2011 14:44:41 -0400Here are the opening words of Heda Margoulis Kovály&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Under a Cruel Star: A Life...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5220991896http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5220991896Thu, 05 May 2011 13:16:21 -0400Among my more literate (read &#8216;word nerd&#8217;) friends I&#8217;ve counted more Scrabble...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5161676021http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5161676021Tue, 03 May 2011 11:07:27 -0400I&#8217;m heading to Fenway in a bit to, I have the bad feeling, watch the currently punchless Sox...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5103791911http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5103791911Sun, 01 May 2011 12:39:00 -0400To celebrate my birthday the Countess and I are going to Fenway Park tonight to watch the...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5048246640http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/5048246640Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:00:06 -0400I went to a Catholic high school. The religion didn&#8217;t stick to me, but Christ&#8217;s...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/4896411544http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/4896411544Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:46:09 -0400The British author Roald Dahl is best known for his children&#8217;s fiction, including Willy Wonka...http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/4865688840http://nonwork.andrewmcafee.org/post/4865688840Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:33:00 -0400