Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Fifty years ago — on Sept. 8, 1966 — TV viewers were transfixed by the appearance on screen of a green-hued, pointy-eared alien called Spock. But beneath the makeup, actor Leonard Nimoy fretted that this would be the end of his promising career. “How can I play a character without emotion?” he asked his boss,…
Goldman Sachs has enacted a set of rules that bans the firm’s top employees from contributing to certain campaigns, including the Trump-Pence ticket. The rules kicked in Sept. 1 and will apply only to partners of the firm. The memo detailing the rule change was first reported by Politico. The firm says the rules were…
The War Room It was late morning on Friday, October 18, when Elizabeth Holmes realized that she had no other choice. She finally had to address her employees at Theranos, the blood-testing start-up that she had founded as a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, which was now valued at some $9 billion. Two days earlier, a damning…
inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160904/REAL_ESTATE/160909960&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&template=rwd& morning10: One World Trade Center sits at the heart of America’s most hallowed ground, a 1,776-foot-tall icon that concretely testifies to the city’s rebirth after Sept. 11, 2001. But as an investment for its owner, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, it has been a bust. Fifteen years after…
It seems like Amazon just accidentally released its specialized page for iPhone 7 accessories—an hour before Apple was set to announce the new phone. The pictures include one iPhone with the rumored dual back-facing cameras. It also includes a link for Bluetooth headphones, which probably the confirms the long rumored removal of the headphone jack….
This rectangle display ad from Omega caught my eye as I scrolled through a lengthy New York Times story about the Olympic games on my iPhone a few weeks ago. It looked pretty good, not surprising for a major Olympics sponsor. Still, I expected it to link to a product pitch on a corporate site. What I…
I had no idea how truly dangerous the Alt-Right was, or that it even existed, until it discovered me. I expected a backlash when I began writing a blog about what it’s like to live with genital herpes. Speaking from personal experience about a taboo topic like sexually transmitted infections was never going to be easy,…
The war over high-speed access is fought on 40-foot-high wooden sticks. America, we have a problem, and it is tall, ubiquitous, and on the side of the road. It is poles. Not the polls that do or do not track the progress of Donald Trump. Not people of Polish extraction. Utility poles. Poles are the key…
At 5am, after a night of drinking with strangers, and pool, and fireworks in the street, and crappy pizza I was sitting in the living room with two friends. One had a serious girlfriend, and one — like me — had been single for a long time. “Being single is really hard,” I said. My friend with the girlfriend…