Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
After the financial crisis of 2008, many people predicted that there would be a crisis of capitalism. The best and the brightest would forgo careers filled with financial ledgers and become teachers or engineers, or start small businesses. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. In fact, getting an MBA has never been a more popular…
Cops are investigating the death of a 20-year-old NYU student who hanged himself from his dorm closet door, officials said Tuesday. The student was found dead by his roommate — a belt looped around his neck — inside his Lafayette St. dorm at about 10:30 p.m. Monday. His name was…
One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there’s any such thing as a career in digital journalism. I’m still doing reporting on this question — if you have any empirical data on the subject, do let me know — but in the meantime, my working hypothesis is that the answer is…
The Only True Leftist in America (TM) with the possible exception of Freddie deBoer looks like he has something to say: Let’s start out with Bernie Sanders. Despite your similarity on issues, he’s running as a Democrat, rather than a third-party candidate, like you did. How do you think that’s influenced the race? I don’t…
A judge sentenced Brock Turner to 6 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman on campus. The light sentence drew harsh criticism. His victim, who has chosen to not be named, spoke directly to him in a court statement. Here’s what she said. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) Early last year, two Stanford University graduate…
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business, said a person familiar with the matter. The telecom company, seen as the leading contender to buy Yahoo, was expected to meet Monday’s deadline for the second round of bids. Yahoo is expected to hold…
(CNN)CNN on Monday declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee based on its count of delegates and superdelegates. Her rival, Bernie Sanders, and his top surrogates and supporters have attacked the nominating rules and the way news organizations are counting superdelegates in tallying the 2,383 delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. “My…
Despite the well-documented (really obvious) gender gap in the tech sector, we’re not seeing a lot of improvement, and it’s time to take some serious action. Right now, women (who represent 57 percent of the U.S. labor force) fill just a quarter (26.5 percent) of tech jobs at the top U.S. tech firms, and earn,…
For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack. Don’t know what Slack is? He can help. The 27-year-old runs ChatOverload, a consulting firm that helps companies modernize team communications using the popular, two-year-old messaging platform. For less tech-savvy (or millennial-savvy) organizations, Markovich holds seminars, builds custom Slackbots, and explains…
The latest would-be presidential candidate spent just under a week in the spotlight — long enough to confound official Washington, but not long enough to make a national splash. He passed that time whizzing from his home in Columbia, Tenn. to New York City to Washington, D.C., before ending up at a farm in Woodstock,…