Stewart Butterfield is the chap who accidentally invented Flickr and then Slack. That alone makes him a pretty smart person. He also studied philosophy before deciding to get into software development. I know this because Jeremy Keith in my Huffduffer network liberated the audio of an interview with Ezra Klein from SoundCloud's silo and shared it.
Author: Reading List
One of many authors on a long list of things Chris has read.
Setting my marginalia free | Jeremy Cherfas
Thoughts and links
Stephen Colbert annotated Trump’s speech — and destroyed Kellyanne Conway in the process | Washington Post
"Any chance there’s a mistake and ‘Moonlight’ is the president?” Colbert quipped.
Fact-checking President Trump’s address to Congress | The Washington Post
Most presidents try to be sure their speeches to Congress adhere closely to the facts. Not Donald Trump.
What a Failed Trump Administration Looks Like | New York Times
Without grown-ups in charge, the government could stop working.
👓 Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
An Open Letter to The Uber Board and Investors | NewCo Shift
By now a staggering number of people recognize the name of Susan Fowler and have read some account of her experiences of sexism, sexual…
An Open Letter to The Uber Board and Investors
By now a staggering number of people recognize the name of Susan Fowler and have read some account of her experiences of sexism, sexual…
Feb. 23rd, 2017 By now a staggering number of people recognize the name of Susan Fowler and have read some account of her experiences of sexism, sexual harassment and horrendous management at Uber. So what explains the silence of Uber’s investors? Continue reading An Open Letter to The Uber Board and Investors
Chief digital officer steps down from White House job over background check | POLITICO
The background check must be completed by White House staffers for positions that cover national security.
👓 Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’ | Quanta Magazine
A decades-old method called the “bootstrap” is enabling new discoveries about the geometry underlying all quantum theories.
In the 1960s, the charismatic physicist Geoffrey Chew espoused a radical vision of the universe, and with it, a new way of doing physics. Theorists of the era were struggling to find order in an unruly zoo of newfound particles. They wanted to know which ones were the fundamental building blocks of nature and which were composites. But Chew, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, argued against such a distinction. “Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself,” he wrote at the time. He believed he could deduce nature’s laws solely from the demand that they be self-consistent. Continue reading 👓 Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’ | Quanta Magazine
Elon Musk Is Really Boring | Bloomberg
The billionaire visionary is digging in on a tunnel project to skirt gridlock, but there’s a hole in his Trump-era business bet.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost taxpayers about $10M
The president has been at his so-called “Winter White House” the past three weekends – 11 days of his first 33 days in office
Budget watchdogs are criticizing the cost of President Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Trump has been at his so-called “Winter White House” the past three weekends. That’s 11 of his first 33 days in office. The travel has an estimated price tag of $10 million. Continue reading Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips cost taxpayers about $10M
JUMP Math, a teaching method that’s proving there’s no such thing as a bad math student | Quartz
"Mathematicians have big egos, so they haven’t told anyone that math is easy.”
Income inequality linked to export “complexity” | MIT News
The mix of products that countries export is a good predictor of income distribution, study finds.
What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border? | Ars Technica
DHS says agents are in the right to ask for passwords, decryption help.