Did a few of these things and they were great.
"Over the last few years, Uber and Airbnb have come to be known as leaders of something called the sharing economy.
Give their founders credit for this feat of mostly misplaced nomenclature. The companies help people sell rides in cars and rent stays in homes; they deserve no more credit for promoting a skill learned in preschool than Marriott or taxi companies."
Pretty reasonable (although I don't agree with him completely on all his ideas and think some make more sense in the NYC context).
Maybe something to check out on Lisa's wedding cruise?
NYTMagazine article about Twitter that doesn't mention TXTMob. Whoops.
This article, and the other articles in this "Room For Debate" about ADHD are awesome.
I read this article months ago and it's haunted me.
Mr. Malamud said his years of activism had led him to set a long-shot goal: serving in the Obama administration, perhaps even as head of the Government Printing Office. “If called, I will certainly serve,†he said. “But if not called, I will probably serve anyway.â€
This review was bad but should have been worse IMHO. '“Why would anyone go to such lengths to get hold of a memoir whose essential purpose was to entertain?†(Oh, perhaps because people don’t find it very entertaining to be depicted as charlatans.) Such faux naïveté is unbecoming in someone as savvy as Lyons is, and makes him seem, in the end, an unreliable narrator of his own story.'
Good for Zeynep publishing this. But I don't really see what the point is. The problem for democracy is that campaigning is about manipulating people to win votes, not about actually engaging in issues. The mass media approaches to this are not particularly less scary to me, even if they are not as effective as new more data-driven approaches.
Bob Parsons sounds like a pretty amazing guy and I will never buy any product if I know it will benefit him.
