How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong

I think this story opens very well with a lead which gives the reader an impression of how Steve Jobs acts. The anecdote explains how he would often park in handicapped spaces at Apple HQ. As Jobs represents Apple as a whole, this provides a stark contrast with the products which Apple produces.

I felt that Leander Kahney did well in explaining how other copanies handle their employees compared to how Apple does. I always knew that companies like Google and Microsoft and Facebook were very open to their employees ideas and freedom. It certainly surprised me to learn this about Apple.

This article contains a lot of information concerning Apple's history and at times it can seem very repetitive. Kahney is essentially listing off ways in which Apple does things wrong. I felt like this was a very biased article as well. Apple and Jobs are portrayed in a very negative light and I have trouble believing that Apple really is such an awful company. It almost seems like the article represents how Wired Magazine feels towards the company. The reader receives little positive about Apple apart from the point that Jobs is harsh, yet knows what he's doing.

Beating Obesity

This story opens with a long and fact-filled introduction. The reader learns why Americans are fat and what challenges they face. The author then indicates that a certain change must be made to combat this "epidemic."
This article contains a huge amount of facts, which at times, seem to get confusing. However, this is a long article which is dealing with a hefty topic. Learning about obesity and how to beat it is hardly a new topic. Marc Ambinder surely had difficulty trying to make this article different than others like it, and I feel like he did a good job. The article covers a lot. We learn about the history of obesity, and just about every way there is to beat it from diet and exercise to bariatric surgery. I found it interesting how blunt Ambinder was in his remarks. He has no trouble explaing exactly what the issue is regardless of how others may feel. Perhaps he can do so because he actually came from a similar place, being obese once himself. In the end though, I don't feel like I came away with a definite answer to "beat obesity." I suppose we learn that everyone must cooperate in order for change to occur by the end, but is that really possible?

Drinking Games

This article begins with a scene setter of a couple traveling to Bolivia to do some anthropological research. There's not too much regarding drinking in this first section and I was confused as to where the article was going. I did feel that this intro was written very well and it did catch my attention so it didn't bother me too much that there was no drinking mentioned at first. When the purpose of the story comes along, I found myself interested in the different ways people drink though.
This article almost reads more like an ethnographic anthropological article than a magazine article. Although this was not a huge problem, I felt like there were some points in the article where I just simply got confused at what was being said. Some of it just seemed above my head and I feel that the average magazine reader may have felt the same. I also feel like the article lacked actual quotes from sources which the author gets his info from. We get a lot of quotes from the Heath couple, but we get little else.