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.
Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart
Find last weekend’s NYT Magazine in print and set aside 2+ hours for this.
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.
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.
Eddy Cue And Craig Federighi Open Up About Learning From Apple’s Failures
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).
Apple Music’s Bozoma Saint John: It’s About Passion, Not Algorithms
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.
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.
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.