NextDraft — “Written by award-winning writer

Dave Pell, it’s informative, it’s pithy, it’s funny,

it’s available, it’s decent looking, it practices

safe newsletter.” Daily weblog-like commentary on news across a spectrum of categories — “politics, pop culture, business” — with plenty of links, but “newsletter” because each day’s post replaces the previous on the webpage. You can subscribe for daily delivery of a text version by email. Dave argues that it’s perfect preparation to break into the know-it-all clique at the dinner parties or the water cooler. He damns himself with faint praise, however; be sure to scroll down to the bottom of his content for a longer more reflective essay. Today, for example, it’s on “one of those stories that

erase all cynicism and simply make one wonder at

human spirit and innovation” — the breakthrough TV ad for a running shoe which features Jami Goldman, world-class runner with two prosthetic legs. “Equal opportunity exploitation”, he says but hastens to add he does not necessarily mean that critically.

Dave, like myself, went to the Graduate School of Education at Harvard in a former life, but he did it to teach while I used it to springboard to medical school and psychiatry. Nevertheless, he says he’s “generally an advocate of psychotherapy (see only tangentially related link here Psychiatric News), but not opposed

to medication when symptoms dictate.” Unlike me, he went into the business world and probably got rich at least once; this site, which lists some of his recent business commentary articles, pegs him as the managing partner of an investment firm who “has invested in and advised more than

thirty internet start-ups.” He also writes davenetics, a daily briefing for internet professionals.

Here’s one of Dave’s nextdraft links, with too enticing a kicker to pass up reprinting: 43 celebrates 55 with 41. CNN