Blog AF

• The Rise of Phone Reading
  Jennifer Maloney - WSJ
  
• How California Is Winning the Drought
  Charles Fishman - NYT
  
• Sabbath
  Oliver Sacks - NYT
  

• Projects and Companies
  Sam Altman
  
• Did Elon Musk build that?
  Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
  
• China bites the cherry
  Paul Krugman - NYT
  
• How much are we worth? I don't know and I don't care.
  Jason Fried - Signal v. Noise
  
• Is it the end of the world as we know it?
  Ezra Galston
  
• Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
  Alexander Spangher - NYT
  

• Do you trust Larry Page?
  Ben Thompson - Stratechery
  
• U.S.A., land of limitations
  Nicholas Kristof - NYT
  
• University students are afraid of everything
  Paul Minda
  
• The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
  Marco Arment
  
• Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president, in a most unconventional way
  Phillip Rucker - Washington Post
  
• Uber is serving New York’s outer boroughs more than taxis are
  Carl Bialik, Andrew Flowers, Reuben Fischer-Baum And Dhrumil Mehta - FiveThirtyEight
  

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