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Today, out of curiosity I went back to the first post in the archive of Fred Wilson’s AVC. I was surprised by the terseness, and the simplicity. Continue reading...

• There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room
  Emily Badger - Washington Post
  
• The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret
  Nicholas Kristof - NYT
  
• The Economics of Software Correctness
  David R. McIver
  
• Tim Cook’s Apple Has Forced the Whole Tech World to Realign
  Marcus Wohlsen - Wired
  
• Twitter's Moment
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  

• Life Is a Braid in Spacetime
  Max Tegmark - Nautilus
  
• Carriers are Making More From Mobile Ads than Publishers Are
  Rob Leathern
  
• The Reign of Recycling
  John Tierney - NYT
  
• How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
  Steven Levy - Backchannel
  
• I met you in the rain on the last day of 1972
  Craigslist Missed Connections
  
• I Do Not Want Your Stupid App
  Jon Evans - TechCrunch
  
• Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
  Leon Neyfakh - Slate
  
• The Age of the Cockroach
  Caternia Fake
  

• The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
  Gregor Aisch, Wilson Andrews And Josh Keller - NYT
  
• Jeb Goes Galt
  Mark Thoma
  
• When the Boats Arrive
  Planet Money (Podcast)
  

Today I discovered an amazing LinkedIn feature that I did not know existed. It is called “Connections In The News”.

With the subject “News about Aaron Dallek” sitting in my inbox, LinkedIn’s email really intrigued me. Clicking through took me to a New York Times article about Opternative, the startup where I used to work, and where Aaron is CEO. Quite simply, LinkedIn parsed Aaron’s name from the piece, and notified me that one of my contacts was mentioned in it. How the software distinguishes between various people named John Smith, or whether it tries at all, is unclear to me, but the feature provided me with a pleasant surprise.

• Why Google 'Thought' This Black Woman Was a Gorilla
  Note to Self
  
• Trickle Up Economics
  Fred Wilson
  
• The Benign Deficit
  Chris Dillow
  
• Take an Eye Exam on Your Laptop
  Jennifer Jolly - NYT
  
• Small Data: Why Tinder-like apps are the way of the future
  Janel Torkington