3 things to read this weekend

Friday is the day when I actually find sometime to sift through my reading materials. Here are three articles/blog posts I found this week that are worthy of your time. 

• Pete Warden, who recently sold his company, Jetpac, to Google has written a great piece about why the nerd culture has to die because what was the rebel alliance is now the empire and it cannot continue to behave like the rebels. 
• Erica Schoenberger argues the urban sprawl isn’t such a bad thing. Actually I never really thought about it like that. As an accompanying piece to her essay, read Brad Templeton’s piece about robocars and urban densities. Illuminating! 
• I have never been a fan of Banana Republic, so to find a piece that talks about their history and a time when they were cool was literally cool.

PS: Day 5 of my  #30daysofblogging challenge with Hiten, Toni and Michael.