Jimmy Soni, New York Observer

Jimmy Soni

New York Observer

New York, NY, United States

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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • New York Observer
  • Aeon Magazine
  • Business Insider
  • Washington Examiner

Past articles by Jimmy:

How This ‘Double Threat’ Songwriter Creates Without Writing Anything Down

Nick van Hofwegen (aka Young & Sick) fuses music and art in a way few can. → Read More

How a Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Thinks About Coffee, Screenplays, and Facebook

Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer was a NYT bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. → Read More

How This Star Comedian Writes On Stage, and What He Learned From Chris Rock

Hari Kondabolu shares his process for writing, honing his material and crafting his performance. → Read More

Here’s How Some of the World’s Great Writers Begin Their Workdays

Those first few moments when you sit down to write aren’t pretty or pleasant. But somehow, in the face of negative voices and thoughts, the pros get through it. → Read More

How a polymath transformed our understanding of information – Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni

It took a polymath to pin down the true nature of ‘information’. His answer was both a revelation and a return → Read More

10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works and Lives

Claude Shannon is the most important genius you’ve never heard of, a man whose intellect was on par with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. → Read More

One of the fathers of modern computing used this 6-step process to solve any problem

Claude Shannon, the "Father of the Information Age," used six techniques that anyone can apply to their lives. → Read More

An Inside Look at the Writing Habits of Pulitzer Prize Winner Stephen Greenblatt

This interview dives into how Prof. Greenblatt works and what inspires him—and gives us a rare window into the inner thoughts of a writing talent. → Read More

How ‘Deep Work’ Expert & Author Cal Newport Gets His Writing Done

If you have seen recent references to the concept of “deep work,” you have author Cal Newport to thank for it. → Read More

What We Learned From Mark Zuckerberg’s Chat With The International Space Station

Facebook held the very first ‘Facebook Live from space” on Wednesday and was joined by members of Expedition 47 currently living aboard the International Space Station. → Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Business, Life, and Building Human Empires

We caught up with Gary Vaynerchuk on the occasion of the launch of his fourth book to talk about the clouds, the dirt, and everything in between. → Read More

The Forgotten Founding Father Who Explains America’s Political Dysfunction

Cato's life is the story of how, at the improbable height of crisis, a dream came true. And it is also the story of how the dream failed. → Read More

How Republicans can seize the healthcare debate

For healthcare, all that's going to matter is who can best answer the question: Now what? → Read More

Pocket profile: Christian Morgan

Name: Christian Morgan Role: Chief of Staff, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo. Age: 38 College: University of Kansas Law School: University of Missouri, Kansas City Washington Examiner: How did you end up as chief of staff for Ann Wagner? Morgan: I started in politics in Kansas in 2004 as part of a congressional race. I worked on the 2006 governor's race against Kathleen Sebelius. I became executive… → Read More

Clinton: Benghazi panel GOP 'attack vehicle'

The ad seizes on comments by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. → Read More

Pocket profile: Omar Ashmawy

Name: Omar Ashmawy; Role: Staff director and chief counsel of the Office of Congressional Ethics; Age: 38; College: George Washington University; Hometown: Westfield, N.J. —— Tell me a little about yourself and how you got to the Hill: I went to college and law school in Washington, and then joined the military. That took me on an unanticipated path because I joined six months before 9/11. The… → Read More

Feds settle charges against company that lost data to Chinese hackers

The investment company stored personal information on a third-party server without taking basic precautions. → Read More

Poll: Almost half say feds are an 'immediate threat'

Forty-nine percent of people asked in a new Gallup survey say the federal government poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens, and another 19 percent say the federal government is too big in general and puts forth too many laws. Though this sentiment has been felt by generally the same percentage of Americans for the past five years, fewer than a third of those… → Read More

Jake Brewer, RIP

What had been an incredible week for me of political drama and media novelty collapsed into indescribable sorrow for my friend Mary Katharine Ham when, late Saturday night, a mutual friend called to tell me that Jake Brewer, MKH's husband and father of their two children — one of whom is still some weeks away from the delivery room — had been killed biking in a charity event to raise money to… → Read More

9 million fewer people uninsured since Obamacare

The percentage of people without coverage dropped to 10.4 percent last year. → Read More