You Need To Know How To Use Guns If You Want To Be Able to Regulate Them

You literally don’t know what you’re talking about and need to educate yourself.

Touché.

August 16, 2016 medium guns america






Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart

Find last weekend’s NYT Magazine in print and set aside 2+ hours for this.

August 11, 2016 nytimes mag politics






Terminally ill artist who chose assisted dying gathered friends to say goodbye

Now that’s how you die with dignity.

I’m a believer in physician assisted suicide and happy that California legalized this a few months back.

If you haven’t seen the documentary How to Die in Oregon, you should catch it on Netflix.

August 11, 2016 the guardian death






Employee #1: Tumblr

This is a fun interview with Marc LaFountain, on our team today at Uber but headed up Tumblr’s support in the very early days. Love how this touches on different startup cultures.

August 10, 2016 interview uber






Eddy Cue And Craig Federighi Open Up About Learning From Apple’s Failures

eddy cue

Fast Company went on a tear with features about Apple this week. A bunch of great reads, and a handful of indicators on what Apple is thinking about into the future (services, cars, healthcare).

August 10, 2016 apple maps fast company iOS






Apple Music’s Bozoma Saint John: It’s About Passion, Not Algorithms

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Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy, it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down. You want me to keep going? Because I could preach. I think it is a very emotional thing and you should treat it as such. We as humans have that and we can express it.

August 8, 2016 apple music






Marcus Books, Nation’s Oldest Black-Centric Bookstore, Lands New Fillmore Location

Two years after it was evicted, the historic bookstore will open a smaller space in the African-American Art & Cultural Complex.

I first learned about Marcus Books while taking a Detour in my neighborhood.

August 8, 2016 san francisco






What does the Uber-Didi deal teach us about foreign tech companies trying to do business in China?

Summation: this deal should make you much more bullish on Uber’s future.

August 7, 2016 uber tech acquisition quora