Bill Gurley
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What My Fellow Liberals Don’t Get About Venezuela
Stop sanitizing a tyrannical dictator. My country deserves change.
Birmingham can be the Construction Tech Capital of the United States.
Birmingham and the Construction Industry
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Google Earnings Transparency Issue Sparks Analyst Backlash
Analysts slammed Alphabet management for lack of transparency in the wake of the disappointing Google earnings report. Google stock fell Tuesday.
Driving? The Kids Are So Over It
In a challenge for Detroit, teens put off getting their licenses and buying cars. About a quarter of 16-year-olds had a driver’s license in 2017, a sharp decline from nearly half in 1983.
Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Jim Lanzone Leads CBS Interactive Into The Twilight Zone
Jim Lanzone, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who helped revitalize the struggling Ask Jeeves search engine before its $2 billion sale, is leading a higher-stakes transformation—prodding one of…
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The Federal Reserve has proposed creating its own real-time payments service. Many in favor say it is necessary for achieving real-time payments ubiquity.
Faster Payments Service
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Why Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong
Research on Russian cosmonauts suggests that salt makes you hungry but not thirsty, and may help burn calories.
Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career…
In September of 2018, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on how people should think about their career journey. This is something I had been thinking...
Opinion | Our Culture of Contempt
The problem in America today is not incivility or intolerance. It’s something far worse.
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break…
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mdy"Status derives value from some type of scarcity. What is the one fundamental scarcity in the age of abundance? User attention"
mdy"Every network has some ceiling on its ultimate number of contributors, and it is often a direct function of its proof of work."
My Brother Yao | By Steve Francis
Yao had to carry the weight of two cultures on his shoulders. I always respected and appreciated the grace he showed.
Above the Crowd
(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, in which he…
Bloomberg
Bloomberg connects decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. Read this story on Bloomberg.
DeMarcus Cousins of Golden State Warriors blasts NCAA system after Zion Williamson…
NBA star DeMarcus Cousins ripped the NCAA after Zion Williamson's injury, saying college "does nothing" for the Duke star at this point.
NBA reportedly proposes to lower the draft-eligible age to 18
The NBA has proposed to the NBA Players Association to lower the draft-eligible age to 18, which would essentially eliminate the one-and-done players in college basketball, like Zion Williamson of…