Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of…
America’s cities all have the same dream these days: to be the next Silicon Valley. To court Big Tech, they have taken to showering some of the world’s most profitable companies with taxpayers’ cash. On the surface the rationale seems obvious. Manufacturing is so 20th century: ship in the tech bros Just 12% of engineering…
Of all the telling moments in the new Whitney Houston documentary Whitney — and there are many — the most revealing may be a small anecdote from Debra Martin Chase, the producer of The Preacher’s Wife and the 2012 remake of Sparkle. Houston, the woman everyone seemed to like and no one really seemed to…
Scott Pruitt, facing more than a dozen federal inquiries, resigned as Environmental Protection Agency administrator on Thursday. “I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” President Trump tweeted. “Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this….
Tesla Inc.’s engineering chief won’t return from his leave of absence, a person familiar with the situation said, as the auto maker heads into a pivotal period to prove it can sustain production of the Model 3 sedan. Doug Field, who had been senior vice president of engineering, stepped away from his work overseeing product…
WARSAW — Surrounded by cheering supporters, Poland’s top Supreme Court justice took a defiant stand on the courthouse steps here Wednesday morning, hours after the government purged the tribunal. She vowed to keep fighting to protect the Constitution and the independence of the nation’s courts. “I’m doing this to defend the rule of law and…
Claypool, a tall, bald man who looked as if he had rolled out of bed in his magisterial robes, appeared to be unmoved by the defense lawyers’ attempts to reduce the $500,000 bail or to characterize their clients, none of whom had a criminal record, as law-abiding citizens. ‘‘I know that what I’m supposed to…
“Cool digs, but the bartender’s shitty attitude turned me off.” end .article-header Nestled between a Buffalo wing place and a diner and right across the street from a Crunch gym on Flatbush Avenue, where the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Prospect Heights meet, there’s nothing outwardly special about Sharlene’s. It’s dimly lit, the booths…
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” – Gertrude Stein My first job as a product manager was in games. I worked at Playdom, Zynga’s primary competitor during the social gaming boom of 2009. The sophistication of our data analysis techniques and the platform supporting them played a…
Mobile screens are likely to stay small, but the share of ads they are taking on is becoming immense. In fewer than five years, nearly seven out of every 10 digital ad dollars will go to mobile, according to a fresh forecast from Forrester. That’s thanks to what the research firm is predicting will be…