Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Once upon a time, circa 1995, Yahoo cofounders Jerry Yang and David Filo were setting up the company’s first office. It was a pretty drab place, so they decided to redo the walls. Filo headed out to pick up some paint. A notoriously thrifty type—his official title is “Chief Yahoo,” but his colleagues have been…
“Is anyone else freaking out right now?” said Dan Price, the owner of a small Seattle-based credit card processing company, to a room full of his employees after he informed them of his new salary policy. “I’m kind of freaking out.” The New York Times ran a story on April 13 about how Price, the founder and CEO of Gravity…
Arabelle Sicardi, who wrote a BuzzFeed post criticizing Dove that was later deleted (and eventually restored) at the request of editor-in-chief Ben Smith, is resigning from the site, according to an internal memo distributed by BuzzFeed Style editor Julie Gerstein. From: Julie Gerstein Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM Subject: News about Arabelle…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Portfolio An iOS Lens Into Equity There is more to mobile apps than games, and Portfolio, co-founded by TechCrunch alum Ben Schaechter, wants to upend the financial application space. The company launched its iOS application three weeks ago, and has seen quick early adoption, spurred on in part with App Store love…
The shower-in-the-kitchen thing is like the unicorn of bad NYC real estate. Occasionally you hear about them, but only a few people have actually seen them. Others have only seen them in movies—a well-placed design element for added comedic “Only In New York” effect. But they are real, they are out there, and the kind…
The New York Times became an investor in Tina Brown’s event series Women in The World late last year. When the news was announced, the Times promised a new website for the brand. Today that site makes its debut, at nytimes.com/womenintheworld. The new site features responsive design and is updated throughout the day with content from Women…
The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco site, surprised its audience yesterday by announcing that it was shutting down. “Together we have built a strong community of followers, contributors, and partners. However, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations,” the site said in a post announcing its closure. “It’s been a great run…
Paul Tudor Jones—whose net worth is $4.6 billion—is one of the most famous hedge fund managers in American history. He is a heavy donor to Republicans. And he is warning of the possibility of class-based revolution in America. Also, he has some ideas. We will say this about Paul Tudor Jones: he is not the…
Income inequality is tearing apart the social fabric of the U.S., and plenty of people—not unreasonably—blame big corporations. Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, founder of a hedge fund and the much-lauded Robin Hood Foundation, which works on poverty-related issues in New York City, is worried. During a talk at this year’s TED Conference, he voiced his…
Few things can be as delicious as a pile of quesadillas, chalupas, gorditas, cheesy quesarito crunchers, quesalupa chasers, and supreme Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew balls from Taco Bell when you’re as high as humanly possible. Or, you know, really drunk, or a teenager, or whatever other reasons people have for going to Taco Bell and not…