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Gary Shteyngart is a Watch Geek
I really enjoyed Gary Shteyngart’s latest piece in The New Yorker, in which he describes how he became fascinated with mechanical watches over the last sixteen months. A few notable paragraphs and...
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For Want of an Oxford Comma, a Court Case Decided
The importance of the Oxford Comma prevails again! This time, it has helped win a court case: Maine’s law says the following activities do not qualify for overtime pay: “The canning, processing,...
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An Algorithm and 7 Million Unique Nutella Jars
Earlier this year, Milan-based design agency Ogilvy & Mather partnered with Nutella manufacturer Ferrero to unveil its “Nutella Unica” jars. The agency created an algorithm that generated 7 million...
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The Most Popular Course on Coursera
From the New York Times, a profile of the most popular course on Coursera, about learning how to learn. The remarkable thing is that the videos for the course were created in Dr. Barbara Oakley’s...
View ArticlePaul Ford on Bitcoin
Paul Ford has written an entertaining essay on Bloomberg, in which he shares his thoughts on Bitcoin: Whenever I hear people talk about Bitcoin’s limitless future, I think about Dow 100,000. I first...
View ArticleCal Newport on Social Internet vs. Social Media
I’ve been following Cal Newport for a number of years online. Cal Newport has a polarizing stance in that he is NOT on any social media channels (he even wrote a New York Times piece titled “Quit...
View ArticleGary Shteyngart Goes Deep on Hedge Funds and Bitcoin
I really enjoy all that Gary Shteyngart publishes (see here and here, for example) . In his latest year-long project, Shteyngart has been researching finance, bitcoin, and has written an interesting...
View ArticleThe Quest for a Billion Dollar Red
This is an interesting piece in Bloomberg on Mas Subramanian, “the biggest celebrity in the uncelebrated world of pigment research,” and his quest to find a safe and stable red pigment: The world lacks...
View ArticleThe “It Almost Worked” Billion Dollar Bank Job
This is a fascinating story in The New York Times of how some clever hackers/thieves were almost able to infiltrate the global banking system and get away with stealing nearly a billion dollars through...
View ArticleRIP Anthony Bourdain; “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”
What tragic news this morning to learn of Anthony Bourdain’s death. I am going to watch a few episodes of his most recent episodes of Parts Unknown. In the meantime, his 1999 piece “Don’t Eat Before...
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