Category: Notes

  • The Rush To Publish

    “academics: yes, let’s meet in 7 months and 6 days, at 2:08 PM ¶ journalists: hi can you comment for this article, it’s due in 47 seconds. also i’ve left you seven voicemails” – @eveewing, a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. I know Dr. Ewing is not referring to startup media in particular,…

  • Indie Software I Pay For

    “What’s tech/software/app that is (a) run by indie devs/small co and (b) that you feel great paying for? ¶ two of mine: ¶ @BearNotesApp @OvercastFM” – @hunterwalk I guarantee I’m forgetting some stuff. This might be updated in the future. Web & iOS Innologica: Inoreader. RSS for power-users. This is how I consume everything from…

  • In Regards To Sweatpants

    “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” – Karl Lagerfeld, RIP Nods while wearing a recently-purchased pair of grey sweatpants. I bought a black pair too. They were cut and sewn in Canada and I spent $95 apiece. In before everyone says it’s my privilege,…

  • Note: Wednesday Was Brutal For The Media Business

    Contained here are notes and musings, not a formal statement of my position on any matter in particular. On January 23, 2019, the following headlines crossed the wire: BuzzFeed to cut 15% of staff in new round of layoffs (Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter for CNN Business) Gannett lays off journalists across the country (Tom…

  • Links: September 5, 2018

    Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (Wall Street Journal) How To Make A Big Decision (The New York Times) Fully Autonomous Cargo Ships Face Enormous Challenges (Wolf Street) Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (PNAS) Google launches new search engine to help scientists find the datasets they need (The Verge) Leaders Dominate Public Cloud…

  • Links: September 4, 2018

    Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape (IEEE Spectrum) All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders (Andreessen Horowitz) The Long Goodbye (To Facebook) (Om.co) How to Fall Asleep in 120 Seconds (Sharon Ackman on Medium) Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system (Read The Tea Leaves) Teachers Are…

  • April 18, 2017

    Cook, Steven A. “RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017.” Foreign Policy, April 16, 2017. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/16/rip-turkey-1921-2017/. Fitzpatrick, Brad. “Thoughts on the Social Graph.” Personal Site. BradFitz.com, August 17, 2007. http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/. Honan, Mat, and Alex Kantrowitz. “Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Told Us About The Wild Things Facebook’s New Camera Will Do.” BuzzFeed, April 18, 2017. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/mark-zuckerbergs-next-big-bet-making-the-real-world-an. Kantrowitz, Alex. “Meet…

  • Refs: April 14, 2017

    Ethan Kurzweil, “An inside Look at Bessemer Venture Partners’ Investment Process for Twilio,” TechCrunch, April 11, 2017, http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/an-inside-look-at-bessemer-venture-partners-investment-process-for-twilio/. Jeff Bezos, “Exhibit 99.1,” Shareholder Letter, (April 13, 2017), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm. Yinmeng Zhang, “How to Measure User Retention and Track Improvement,” Apptimize, July 28, 2016, https://apptimize.com/blog/2016/07/measure-user-retention-track-improvement/. josephg, “Josephg’s Comment on ‘How We Built r/Place,’” Comment, Hacker News, (April…

  • Refs: April 13, 2017

    American Bar Association, ed., Fund Director’s Guidebook, 4th edition (Chicago, Illinois: ABA, Business Law Section, 2015). Kurt J. Berney, Mitchell S. Presser, and David H. Wasserman, eds., Private Equity & Venture Capital Investing: Legal, Financial & Strategic Techniques for Successful Investing, Corporate Law and Practice Course Handbook Series, no. B-1276 (New York, N.Y: Practising Law…

  • April 12, 2017

    Stef Aupers, “‘Trust No One’: Modernization, Paranoia and Conspiracy Culture,” European Journal of Communication 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 22–34, doi:10.1177/0267323111433566. Josh Constine, “Facebook Messenger Hits 1.2 Billion Monthly Users, up from 1B in July,” TechCrunch, accessed April 12, 2017, http://social.techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/messenger/. Dan Motzenbecker, “Fast Drawing for Everyone,” Google, April 11, 2017, https://www.blog.google/topics/machine-learning/fast-drawing-everyone/. Mike Preuss,…