The Stanford Letters
Given that she remembers nothing between midnight (when she wandered away from the party) and 4:15 AM (when she woke up at the hospital), she can’t tell us how the violation felt, which weirdly works in her favor: men rape women so often that rape stories start to feel plagiarized.
Fun Facts From San Francisco History
Speaks for itself. Can’t wait for Alamo Square to open up again after all this construction.
Tonight I saw a homeless man
Jimmy Chen keeps some writing on his blog where he rambles in one of the most pleasantly raw ways. That he’s local to SF and covers the mundane - like seeing a homeless guy outside of Arlequin on Hayes - makes it that much more relatable.
Two other blog posts of his that I recommend:
iOS 10 Review
The ultimate authority here is Viticci’s comprehensive review in MacStories, but that piece is a behemoth to get through with no detail left unturned. If you’re looking for something more digestible, Nick Heer’s pxlnv review might be right.
I’m picking up my preordered iPhone 7 tonight in Black, but I’m conflicted on my choice after seeing Jet Black in person earlier. I guess it really doesn’t matter that much.
Pajama Rich
From Real Life, the same online magazine that published that crazy self-driving piece. This one is about athleisure (kill me) being a thing.
Unrelated - Bonobos released a sportswear collection targeting guys who aren’t elite Nike athletes looking to go into armored battle.
We’re the Only Plane in the Sky
This was fascinating. It’s a play by play of the eight hours after the first attacks on September 11, chronicling the stories of the people who were physically closest to the President at the time.
A few things that stood out to me were the breakdowns in communication process, the Secret Service refusing the President’s wishes to go back to DC citing Federal Law, and just how far our technology has come since (Air Force One was relying on analog TV signals from the ground for news updates).
How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down
Woooosh.
In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology.