[T]his town is an intellectual wasteland without any sense of humor. I’ve been living here for 17 years, and if you asked me to tell you when I last had lunch with anybody but my wife or someone that came to see me from India or New York or Boston or Germany, I couldn’t come up with a name.
The founder of TED complaining about Newport, RI (where he lives in a mansion often mistaken for a museum). It’s such a surreal profile, I don’t even want to spoil it—just please please go read for yourself.