Reads, Listens

Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled

🎧 The Daily: Why Did New York’s Most Selective Public High School Admit Only 7 Black Students? | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: Why Did New York’s Most Selective Public High School Admit Only 7 Black Students? from New York Times

The latest admissions numbers at Stuyvesant High School offer a stark picture of the persistent racial divide in America’s largest school system.

Perhaps the problem is more systemic than the small band-aid they’re offering as a means of fixing it?

👓 Most eCommerce Reviews are Missing this Feature | Chris Lema

Read Most eCommerce Reviews are Missing this Feature by Chris Lema (ChrisLema.com)
When you look at tons of online stores, you quickly realize most eCommerce Reviews are missing this one critical feature. It's what we're working on now.

👓 How to publish a calendar feed from Google Calendar or Hotmail (Outlook.com) Calendar | Jon Udell

Read How to publish a calendar feed from Google Calendar or Hotmail (Outlook.com) Calendar by Jon Udell (jonudell.net)

👓 Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard | The WordPress.com Blog

Read Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard (The WordPress.com Blog)
We’re happy to announce new improvements to your WordPress.com dashboard for a more accessible and customized experience. From your desktop, you can now customize your dashboard by choosing one of …

👓 Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes | The WordPress.com Blog

Read Introducing Six New Business-Oriented Themes (The WordPress.com Blog)
Elevate your business website with one of our six new free themes! Calm, sophisticated, friendly, professional, elegant, modern — find the style that’s just right for you.

🎧 The Daily: One Family’s Story of Survival and Loss in New Zealand | New York Times

Listened to The Daily: One Family’s Story of Survival and Loss in New Zealand from New York Times

The loved ones of a man killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks say goodbye to a son, father, husband and brother.

👓 College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street | Bloomberg

Read College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street by Claire Boston (Bloomberg)
Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.

👓 Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies | Nature

Read Geneticist Sydney Brenner, who made tiny worm a scientific legend, dies by Holly Else
Nobel-prizewinning biologist pioneered use of C. elegans as an animal model.

👓 She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it | CNN

Read She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it (CNN)
Oregon medical students were shocked and surprised when they opened the cadaver of Rose Marie Bentley.

👓 Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret | Intelligencer | NYMag

Read Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes Secret by Jonathan Chait (Intelligencer)
Congress has a clear legal right to examine Trump’s taxes. Republicans could not care less what the law says.
When a bad Democrat comes to power, the Republican party will have lost any moral authority for calling for ousters… We can’t have two sets of rules for our politicians. Either they follow the rules and mores or they don’t and Trump is wreaking a horrible precedent.

👓 Twitter’s Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 | Reuters

Read Twitter's Jack Dorsey paid $1.40 in 2018 (Reuters)
Twitter Inc said on Monday it paid its Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey $1.40...
Surely I won’t be the first to have said it, but a penny per character in a tweet almost seems fitting if not overpaying. But they need to amend his contract to match the new 280 character limit.

👓 This simple tipping trick could save you over $400 a year | CNBC

Read One tipping trick could save you over $400 a year by Zack Guzman (CNBC)
Changing this one thing about the way you pay can save you money without being unfair to servers.
Clickbait for cheap people. I’m surprised he didn’t suggest not tipping at all in the states where employers provide minimum wage to cover missed tips…