Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
We’re in the midst of an all-out panic over vaping, spurred by real concerns after hundreds of people have fallen ill after vaping and several people have died. While the exact causes are unknown, it’s become fairly clear that the main culprit, if not the only one, is the addition of Vitamin E oil to…
THREE years ago, Walgreens (b. 1901) arrived in Silicon Valley for the same reason many old economy companies do: to hurry and join the digital vanguard before it was left behind. Walgreens quickly made a deal with Theranos (b. 2004), the medical diagnostics company and media darling that promised a revolutionary approach to blood tests….
At my very first job in New York, a colleague jokingly informed me: “You came in a WASP, but you’re leaving a Jew.” That statement was in reference to the demographics of the office’s staff. Almost everyone who worked there was Jewish, and I, a recent college graduate who had spent my adolescence in a largely Christian…
Chinese employees eat dinner during a midnight work break at a tech company in Beijing. In China it is quite usual for managers to have working dinners followed by two or three meetings © Reuters Michael Moritz January 17, 2018 The declaration by Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing company, that delivery business Meituan’s decision to launch…
In the last year ProPublica has uncovered a number of different flaws in our advertising systems. Several of them were serious failures on our part. It’s why we apologized and took immediate action to prevent them in the future. Today ProPublica has raised new concerns about companies, including our own marketing team, using Facebook…
This week, according to the Information, Jawbone shut down. That’s the company, valued at $3 billion, that brought us the Up fitness bands. So here’s the thing: Microsoft discontinued its fitness band in 2016. Nike discontinued its Fuel band in 2015. Meanwhile, Fitbit, the biggest remaining seller of fitness bands, is having a tough time….
Hold up before you snap a photo of that pho: Your latest food-inspired Instagram post might be a little bit racist. That’s according to Celeste Noche, a professional food photographer in Portland, Oregon, featured on an episode of The Racist Sandwich podcast, which explores food through the lens of race, gender, and class. She’s identified…
Strategic. Planned. Effective. That’s my headline in response to President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDems ask for hearings on Russian attempts to attack election infrastructure Face the Nation host: Media ruined its own reputation without Trump Trump press conference reveals long game. Media still scrambling MORE‘s unexpected press conference held on Thursday at the White House. The…
Just weeks into Donald Trump’s presidency, you would think that everything had changed. The uproar over the president’s tweets grows louder by the day, as does concern over the erratic, haphazard and aggressive stance of the White House toward critics and those with different policy views. On Sunday, White House aide Stephen Miller bragged, “We…
It’s tough being a heroic anti-Nazi street fighter when you’re the closest thing to a Nazi around. Last week, anti-fascist protesters showed up in Berkeley, California, to courageously battle the Nazi supporters of alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos. Soon after, they likewise put it all on the line to tussle with the right-wing mob supporting radical…