Blog AF

• 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
  

• 1099 as antitrust
  Steve Randy Waldman
  
• The Growth Fairy Model
  Mark Thoma
  
• Airbnb and San Francisco
  Sam Altman
  
• Jeb Bush is the ultimate anti-internet candidate
  Trevor Timm - The Guardian
  
• Making the Case for Permissionless Innovation
  a16z Podcast
  
• Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
  Michael Eisen
  

My apoligies for the lack of links on Friday. Hopefully today’s set makes up for that.

• Platforms, distribution and audience
  Benedict Evans
  
• Connect the dots
  Exponent (Podcast)
  
• Jeb Bush's Claims and Reality
  Mark Thoma
  
• Stupid Apps and Changing the World
  Sam Altman
  
• Paradoxes of Control
  Chris Dillow
  
• The Next Thirty Years
  David Warsh
  
• Why I Fucking Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed
  Mark Suster
  
• The Risk of a Billion-Dollar Valuation in Silicon Valley
  Andrew Ross Sorkin - NYT
  
• Experience: I mine for 100-year-old jeans
  Michael Allen Harris - The Guardian
  
• What shape is the internet?
  Noah Veltman