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An Opportunity, Not an Ultimatum
Only one city offers a sustainable solution for the future of the Olympic Movement in 2024 and beyond. That’s Los Angeles.
Addded Mar 31, 2017
Technology, economy, trade
Stop we have immense opportunities in technology, economy and commerce.Last week, Google / Alphabet shares lost about 4.5% per share, thanks to the controversy contained in YouTube ads.
Addded Mar 29, 2017
'JUMPER' A Secret of the Universe
The time is 4:26am and I've been unable to go back to sleep since the power got restored almost 30mins ago. I knew I couldn't wait to write what I'm about to. I hope as you read this, it'll change your life and unlock a secret of the universe to you.
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Why I Left Vocativ
Yesterday, I left Vocativ, the news site where I’ve worked since August of last year.
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The Berkshire Hathaway of The Internet
Warren Buffett is famous for handshake deals and one-page contracts. He often buys multi-billion-dollar companies after a few phone calls, usually without ever meeting the management team in person or visiting their facilities. Not only that, but he typically pays below market prices and avoids dealing with investment bankers.
Addded Mar 20, 2017
We can end the daily release of mercury into our air and water by artisanal gold miners
Four tons a day, every day… 1400 tons a year and mercury remains toxic virtually forever.
Addded Mar 17, 2017
When 'he'll be kept on payroll, somewhere' is where you are
On August 31, 2015, I started a Ph.D. in cryptography at TU Eindhoven, working with Tanja Lange and Dan Bernstein. On December 2, 2016, I resigned, due to sexual harassment, bullying, blackmail, and physical harm as a result of their favorite student, Jacob Appelbaum, as well as Tanja and Dan’s total abdication of their responsibility to manage the workplace environment in their research group.
Addded Mar 17, 2017
The Indian Uber-- That is TVF
It was way back in 2014 when i first met Arunabh Kumar. I was young and bubbly as i remember. I met him in a small cafe in BKC. He came across as charming fellow. What caught my attention was that he was another man from my same native state-- Bihar.
Addded Mar 13, 2017
The Crippling Fear of Medical Poverty
I wrote this as a personal blog entry in 2012. I’m republishing it today because it’s obviously still relevant.
Addded Mar 13, 2017
Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children
I don't know that I have ever seen a video go viral more quickly than this clip of some dude in South Korea commenting on the removal of once-President Park Geun-hye.
Addded Mar 11, 2017
How to reach a Southern mom listening to country music on Pandora after driving the kids to school…
Pandora’s experiments with personalized audio advertising are part of a larger strategy of audio innovation.
Addded Mar 10, 2017
A Career Retrospective--10 years working in tech
I’ve seen a few CS students fearful about the industry they’ll enter into when they graduate. And with all the recent tech news, who can blame them? Why am I even still here? This is my career retrospective -- what has been great, what has been horrible, why I’m still here & fighting.
Addded Mar 10, 2017
Complexity and Strategy
I struggled with how to think about complexity through much of my career, especially during the ten years I spent leading Office development.
Addded Mar 9, 2017
How (not) to disappear completely
Focusing on relationships is not just about the life or death of journalism. By doing so, we defend the true purpose of communication: to build community
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What do economists know?
A journalist once asked me how many jobs NAFTA had created or destroyed. I told him I had no reliable idea. Certainly jobs had been lost when factories closed and moved to Mexico but other jobs had been gained because Americans now had more resources and increased their demand for products that would not be easy to identify. Why not?
Addded Mar 6, 2017
My Day in Prison — The Most Rewarding Day of my Life
Last week I spent a day locked inside California City Correctional Facility. I was volunteering along with other business people to review…
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SAME #6: 'Girl' by Beck (’05) & The Internet (‘16)
“Same” is an ongoing series which examines two pop songs with the same name.
Addded Feb 28, 2017
Behind the IPO Spectacle: Five Communications Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Whenever a technology company gears up to go public, I feel a wave of empathy tinged with nostalgia and a little PTSD. Nearly three years…
Addded Feb 28, 2017
A Defensive Lineman Saves the Internet
Chris Long of the New England Patriots may have just saved the Internet -- and saved you from yourself.
Addded Feb 27, 2017
The True Story of the 'Ellen Selfie'
With Oscar night approaching, I find myself thinking back to one of the high points of my time at Twitter: The Academy Awards of 2014, and the famous “Ellen Selfie.”
Addded Feb 27, 2017
Playing With Toys While People are Dying
The work of video game developers distracts the world from problems which desperately need solutions. The culture this feeds is fundamentally depraved, the financial outcomes are random and, ultimately, nothing of worth is produced.
Addded Feb 27, 2017
Post Cable Networks
The emerging internet media category of live, linear, video programming requires some definition. This was made clear to me in the wake of…
Addded Feb 26, 2017
Fair Use, Fairness and the Public Interest
In honor of Fair Use Week, let’s begin by unmasking the false premise underlying much of the celebration of fair use -- that is, that the basic objective of the copyright system is to achieve a balance between the “public interest” on the one hand, and the interest of private copyright owners on the other.
Addded Feb 24, 2017
How To Become More Focused And Less Distracted
There's so much information out there. It's a challenge that each of us grapples with. The Internet is simply massive in size, and continually growing. On just about every conceivable topic, one can locate a limitless amount of content, giving the World Wide Web a never-ending feel.
Addded Feb 24, 2017
Chinese(?) fashion: whither Taiwan? – Thoughts And Ideas
Conversations on Chinese-Taiwan relations (so to speak) and identity in the world of fashion.
Addded Feb 23, 2017
Why Does Dating Men Make Me Feel Like S***?
For the first time in years, I find myself feeling ugly. What changed was that I started dating men.
Addded Feb 23, 2017
If Trump is Impeached, it Might Be the End of America
It’s hard to overstate just how many Trump supporters there are, how many have lost faith in the system, and how many have become…
Addded Feb 22, 2017
Why I’m leaving Snapchat and so are all your friends
Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we've fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of the ordinary tactics to get people to pay it. Despite the fact that the app was always what some would consider "hostile" to new users, full of design anti-patterns, it managed to gain a fledgling user base of 180 million monthly active users.
Addded Feb 22, 2017
The Keys to Finding the Right Tech Talent
Although the job market is full of eager applicants, we are still in an era where companies of all shapes and sizes have to compete intensely to hire exceptional tech talent. Competing for tech talent has always been intense because there is a massive imbalance between the number of qualified applicants (low) and the number of tech positions needing to be filled (high).
Addded Feb 22, 2017
Renaissance era for Banking
Today, we are living in the “Renaissance era of Banking” and this transformation that we see is from disruptive changes across regulations, technology, and the very manner in which banking is consumed as a service. The opportunity to transform banking is now a top agenda for most nations globally as they seek to make banking inclusive and accessible to billions.
Addded Feb 21, 2017
Digital Bank: Why Human Capital strategy matters most.
Preparing your bank to go digital is not only about rethinking your technology, it’s about rethinking your bank , your customer engagement and most importantly your People Capital. The lost opportunity for Indian state owned banks: Flash Back: 1985–2000.
Addded Feb 21, 2017
Deleting Uber is the least you can do
Uber is what you get when you take Silicon Valley’s most toxic values, add billions of dollars in venture capital, and spice it with endless adoration from a fawning tech press. The resulting cocktail has turned as putrid as it’s been potent. And the inebriated corporate culture of Uber is acting as reckless and callous as a dangerous drunk.
Addded Feb 21, 2017
Reflecting on Susan Fowler’s Reflections
In the last 24 hours, pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley has read Susan Fowler's story. If you haven't, you should. Her story, and others like it, are the inconvenient truth of the tech industry.
Addded Feb 21, 2017
Solving Problems That Matter Could Be the Next Big Thing
By viewing a society as a problem-solving superorganism, the natural sciences and technology sector can go wild with possibilities.
Addded Feb 21, 2017