Category: Social Stream
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” Patisserie: The Semi Final | Netflix
Directed by Andy Devonshire. It's week nine of The Great British Baking Show, and it's the semi-final, where only four bakers remain. It's Pâtisserie week! To kick-start things in the signature challenge, the bakers are once again butter bashing and folding their pastry to achieve perfect lamination for this difficult French pastry. In the technical challenge, Paul has set the bar high, testing the bakers' pâtisserie prowess...
Watched on my Kindle 8″.
📺 “Star Trek: The Next Generation” Homeward | KVEA
Directed by Alexander Singer. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. In an attempt to preserve a race of people on a planet being bombarded by storms that would kill them, Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive, leaving the Enterprise crew in a difficult position.
Interesting turn by Paul Sorvino as Warf’s brother.
📺 “Star Trek: The Next Generation” The Pegasus | KVEA
Directed by LeVar Burton. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. Riker finds out his former commander from the starship Pegasus has orders that entail more than what is revealed to Picard, who thinks the Enterprise is en route to recover the lost ship. And Riker is ordered to secrecy.
📅 RSVP for Innovate Pasadena Friday Morning Coffee Meetup: From Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur
Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 8:15 AM at Cross Campus Pasadena
Jeff Keltner began his career at IBM. After 3 uneventful years, he moved to Google to help launch the Google Apps (now GSuite) business. After running the Education team for 4 years and growing the business to 70% market share, he transitioned to help launch the Chromebook product line and drove the go-to-market strategy.
But 6 years and 2 major launches were at Google was enough. Following this 6-year stint helping launch new businesses at Google, he joined other Xooglers to help launch Upstart the first lending platform to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automate the borrowing process. He is now leading Powered by Upstart, Upstart’s new white label offering for banks.
The transition from employee to intrapreneur to entrepreneur may seem daunting - but it’s easier than you think. Come hear about Jeff’s story and the lessons you can take away from his experiences.
Jeff joined Upstart after spending 6 years at Google. He launched and built the Google Apps for Education business, growing market share from zero to almost 70% in its first four years. Jeff spearheaded marketing efforts for Google Apps in Global 2000 accounts and led sales, business development, and go-to-market strategy for the launch of Chrome devices in the education and enterprise sectors. He spent several years in direct sales at IBM, always exceeding quota, and was a founding engineer and led UI developer at SSB Technologies. Jeff holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.
❤️ EatPodcast tweet: Proposal for the book of Our Daily Bread is on its way to publisher.
Jeremy Cherfas | Eat This Podcast (Twitter)Well, this is exciting, and a little bit scary. Proposal for the book of Our Daily Bread is on its way to publisher. Now to wait. Fortunately, baking with natural leavens teaches patience.
— Eat This Podcast (@EatPodcast) October 18, 2018
👓 The Harvard Trial Doesn’t Matter | The Atlantic
The lawyers challenging the university are testing out their arguments to see which ones stick ahead of a potential appeal to the Supreme Court.
👓 Perspective | Even janitors have noncompetes now. Nobody is safe. | Washington Post
One of the central contradictions of capitalism is that what makes it work — competition — is also what capitalists want to get rid of the most. That’s true not only of competition between companies, but also between them and their workers. After all, the more of a threat its rivals are, and the more options its employees have, the less profitable a business will tend to be. Which, as the Financial Times reports, probably goes a long way toward explaining why a $3.4 billion behemoth like Cushman & Wakefield would bother to sue one of its former janitors, accusing her of breaking her noncompete agreement by taking a job in the same building she had been cleaning for the global real estate company but doing it for a different firm.
This is just a bit silly… particularly in the land of both “opportunity” and capitalism.
👓 Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow | Washington Post
Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the news inspired a wave of nostalgia for a company that sold an ideal of middle-class life to generations of Americans. A lesser-known aspect of Sears’s 125-year history, however, is how the company revolutionized rural black Southerners’ shopping patterns in the late 19th century, subverting racial hierarchies by allowing them to make purchases by mail or over the phone and avoid the blatant racism that they faced at small country stores.
A rehash and an expansion of a tweetstorm I saw the other day.
🎧 Lectures 26-27 of The Story of Human Language by John McWhorter
John McWhorter from The Great Courses: LinguisticsLecture 26: Does Culture Drive Language Change?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis proposes that features of our grammars channel how we think. Professor McWhorter discusses the evidence for and against this controversial but widely held view.Lecture 27: Language Starts Over—Pidgins
This lecture is the first of five on how human ingenuity spins new languages out of old through the creation of pidgins and creoles. A pidgin is a stripped-down version of a language suitable for passing, utilitarian use.
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” Advanced Dough | Netflix
Directed by Andy Devonshire. With Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood. It's the quarter-finals of the competition and only five bakers remain. Mary and Paul up the ante to see which bakers will rise to the challenge. The competitors must make enriched sweet fruit loaves for their Signature, followed by a Technical challenge that stretches them to the limit. Finally, the bakers must make 36 showstopping doughnuts, demonstrating skills and ideas that take baking to a ...
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” Pastry | Netflix
Directed by Andy Devonshire. With Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood. The bakers must make a dozen savory parcel pastries, kouign-amann, and two dozen éclairs.