Links - July 4, 2016

I haven’t read much lately. I checked my stats today (yes, I keep track of how many articles I read) and my rolling one week daily average is about to hit 1 article read per day. That is scary, because I don’t know what is consuming my time in place of my usual online reading.

It might be Twitter, and the bots, but that doesn’t add up in my head.

• Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet
  Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic
  
• Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey. Will It Work?
  Nick Bilton - Vanity Fair
  
• Why Amazon Has Consumer Investors Bemused and Confused
  Ezra Galston - BreakingVC
  
• The Strategy That Donald Trump Borrowed From Ann Coulter
  Peter Beinart - The Atlantic
  
• Think Less, Think Better
  Moshe Bar - The New York Times
  
• Reading Proust on My Cellphone
  Sarah Boxer - The Atlantic
  
• What Color is Your Function?
  Bob Nystrom
  
• Start with the Premise that Everything is Noise
  Tomasz Tunguz
  
• The Elements of Stickers
  Connie Chan - Andreessen Horowitz
  
• Siri In Chains
  M.G. Siegler - 500ish Words
  
• Artificial intelligence produces realistic sounds that fool humans
  Adam Conner-Simons - MIT News
  
• Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning 👾 💭 💕
  Xavier Snelgrove