Behind the scenes look at Casper’s design process
Behind-the-Scenes Look at Casper’s Design Process from Casper Sleep on Vimeo.
Scandinavia 2015
Bergen Station:
Awesome trip to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bergen, and Oslo earlier this month.
More pics coming soon — as soon as Alex Priest gets his act together.
DeBlasio’s Uber
This NYC legislation to cap the number of Ubers on the road under the guise of a congestion “study” is infuriating. It’s not difficult to see right through it.
New York's paper of record weighs in on @BilldeBlasio's proposed Uber cap http://t.co/nr9OXE5JVP
— Andrew Salzberg 🇺🇦 (@andrewsalzberg) July 18, 2015
The secret startup that saved the worst website in America
How a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped rebuild Healthcare.gov
Amazon Fresh in the city
The NYC delivery network is best-in-class and is fundamentally built in. It makes me feel ridiculous paying $ for food delivery in a city like San Francisco. The Verge talks about AmazonFresh here.
There are, of course, thousands of restaurants that will deliver directly to your door through a frenetic network of young men on scooters and makeshift electric bicycles — the original on-demand service, so ancient that neither the Valley nor the Bay can take credit for inventing it.
June 9, 2015 amazon delivery san francisco new york the verge
Seeing networks in New York
This is awesome.
New York’s network infrastructure is a lot like the city itself: messy, sprawling, and at times near-incomprehensible. However, the city’s tendency toward flux is a strange blessing for the infrastructure sightseer: markings and remnants of the network are almost everywhere, once you know how to look for them.
The conceit of the MBA
This idea has been on my mind lately - nice to see it eloquently put. I appreciate depth and mastery of a subject area as opposed to aggressive management or process skills that lack the substance to back it up.
The conceit of the MBA is that you don’t need to have any substance at all. It’s just this management science, and you can apply that equally well in a software company or an oil drilling company or a fashion company or a rocket company. That’s the bias I’d want us to cut against. So for the degree, people would learn substantive things and then on the side you’d pick up some business skills. But you wouldn’t treat the business degree as the central thing.
Not all MBAs… yeah, I know.