Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ten years ago, I attended a panel of cell phone executives talking about the mobile industry. Yes, it sounds like a snoozer and in many ways it was, but I perked up when a tall nordic man began telling us a story about the Angry God of ARPU. I was hoping for a classic Norse…
Uber—despite ignoring and dismissing literally thousands of complaints from customers and drivers regarding sexual assault within Uber vehicles over the past three years—would like us women to know that they’ve got our backs. Hey, thanks, Uber. In a blog posted on International Women’s Day, Uber Senior Program Manager Blair Mattson wrote a special thank-you to…
As goes oil, so goes the stock market…“there will be blood” The “stable” oil market… Following yesterday’s noisy drop, today was the echo with a noisy choppy low volume rally as Oil sparked the momentum in the pre-open, but stocks decoupled lower from both JPY and Oil (smashed lower on weak wholesale trade data and…
For about five minutes after the collapse of the global economy in 2008, the public’s anger was focused enough to cause a temporary cutback in the abuse of corporate jet perks by rich executives. Clearly, those days are over. The FT has published a long investigative story today about the use of corporate jets for…
Chains and gears (source: Pixabay). On any given day, a software project fails somewhere in the world. It’s a common thing, so common that people are surprised when software is delivered exactly as expected and when expected. And this isn’t new, it has been happening for decades, according to the widely cited Chaos Report by…
About sixty-five miles east of New York City, in the southern part of the Long Island town of Brookhaven, there is a hamlet of around six thousand people called Yaphank. In Yaphank, there is a residential community called Siegfried Park, where the land is owned by a non-profit group called the German-American Settlement League. Siegfried…
Recently, the New York City Housing Authority sued St. Mark’s Bookshop, one of its tenants, on the ground floor of the First Houses, at 138 East 3rd Street, in the East Village, for more than $68,000 in back rent. According to court documents, NYCHA issued St. Mark’s its first rent demand on June 26th, 2015,…
The global super rich continued to splash out on super-yachts and luxury goods last year, despite a decline in their overall wealth in the wake of financial market turmoil. According to the latest wealth report from estate agents Knight Frank, published on Wednesday, sales of super-yachts – boats longer than 24 metres – soared 40%…
Illustration: AP Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five…
According to data provided by Uber to BuzzFeed News, the company received five claims of rape, and “fewer than” 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015. Uber provided these numbers as a rebuttal to screenshots obtained by…