Blog AF

• The FANG Playbook
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• Politics and the Future
  Fred Wilson - AVC
  
• Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
  Brian Will - Medium
  
• Pocket Clubs
  M.G. Siegler - Medium
  
• More than half of people can't name a single CEO
  Jason Karaian - Quartz
  
• The Law Everyone Should Hate
  Clay Johnson - Medium
  

• When Philosophy Lost Its Way
  The New York Times - Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle
  
• Why I Hate Frameworks
  Benji Smith - The Joel on Software Discussion Group
  
• A big-shot venture capitalist says we need inequality. What do economists say?
  Jim Tankersley - The Washington Post
  
• Life is Short
  Paul Graham
  
• Book It, Baby
  Jon Evans - TechCrunch
  
• Liber8 BB-8!
  Paul Krugman - The New York Times
  
• Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World?
  Nadya Labi - GQ
  
• Cancer and Climate Change
  Piers J. Sellers - The New York Times
  
• Anti-Education by Friedrich Nietzsche
  John Gray - The Guardian
  
• Refugees, rape and the data — I blame the Squirrel
  Thomas Baekdal - Medium
  
• It’s 2016 already, how are websites still screwing up these user experiences?!
  Troy Hunt
  
• Beware of the Silicon Valley cult
  Ross Williamson - ThinkFaster
  

• A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bike Rides: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System
  Todd W. Schneider
  
• Zoning Laws Transfer Wealth in the Wrong Direction
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• Stop Buying Real Estate (in SF)
  Alexander Campbell - Medium
  
• Radiohead’s business style: everything in its right place
  Kadhim Shubber - FT Alphaville
  
• The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on Things
  James Clear
  
• People call me Aaron
  Noah Swartz - Medium
  
• If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault
  Rachel Kroll - rachelbythebay
  
• What Meetups Tell Us About America
  Dan Kopf - Pricenomics
  

Aaaaand, we’re back…

• The Website Obesity Crisis
  Maciej Cegłowski
  
• The Refragmentation
  Paul Graham
  
• A Politics For Technology
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• How to trick a neural network into thinking a panda is a vulture
  Julia Evans
  
• Why Aren't Costa Rica's Indigenous Students Graduating?
  Rebecca Gibian and Diana Crandall - The Atlantic
  
• The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged
  Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept
  
• How Modern Global Time Was Invented
  Ian P. Beacock - The Atlantic
  
• Lèse humanité
  The Economist
  
• For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
  Noam Scheiber and Patricia Cohen - The New York Times
  
• Teach Yourself Italian
  Jhumpa Lahiri - The New Yorker
  
• Future Economists Will Probably Call This Decade the 'Longest Depression'
  Brad DeLong - Huffington Post
  
• If you're 30% through your life, you're likely 90% through your best relationships
  Tim Urban - Quartz
  

• Taylor Swift, iOS, and the Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution is Vanishing
  Alex Danco
  
• How MTV's "16 and Pregnant" Reduced Teen Pregnancy
  Timothy Taylor - Conversable Economist
  
• The magic that makes Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
  Adam Pasick - Quartz
  
• Of Homo Economicus and Superintelligence
  Joshua Gans - Digitopoly
  
• The Master's as the New Bachelor's
  Laura Pappano - The New York Times