Fitness app Ladder’s rise to #1. This was a really cool interview, and a fantastic entrepreneurial story. From near-bankruptcy to success: “We pivoted from a failing marketplace to an engineering-first fitness platform.” Discover how they cracked TikTok’s algorithm and scaled […]
One industry that’s being replaced by AI: proxy advisors. “[JPMorgan] will use the [internal artificial-intelligence-powered] platform to manage the votes and the AI also will analyze data from more than 3,000 annual company meetings and provide recommendations to the portfolio […]
Open APIs are over. “Salesforce, Datadog & Epic are building walls. After two decades of flourishing through open APIs & data portability, the software industry’s largest incumbents are locking down.” As AI accelerates development, companies are protecting their ecosystems fiercely, […]
Austin ISD’s $100 million oversight. Amid financial pressures, Austin ISD planned to improve many schools with a $2.4 billion bond. Yet, a surprising decision followed: “By that point, more than $95 million in bond money already had been spent or […]
Federal government gets a refund from CPS after grant fraud uncovered. “Chicago Public Schools had to pay back nearly $1.2 million to the U.S. Department of Education after an employee repeatedly falsified data on federal grant applications over the course […]
Why you can’t start a Chicago-style hot dog cart in Chicago. “But in the home of Chicago-style hot dogs, there is not a single food-cart vendor licensed to sell hot dogs on a city sidewalk, according to a Chicago Policy […]
The Chad mindset. “Mr Peters is a ‘looks-maxing’ influencer.” This community of young men chases an ideal male physique, using extreme methods like “bonesmashing” to enhance facial structure and even resorting to crystal meth to maintain a certain weight. ~ […]
An ASCIl art playground. In the early days of my internet journey, I discovered that people could make impressive things with the font characters that I regularly overlooked. “This playground is an attempt of a browser-based live-code environment with text-only […]
Only in Alaska. It’s perfectly legal for bush planes (Wikipedia link) to use roads as runways, but seeing one “gas up at the local station” might still catch you off guard. ~ learn more
Kids yell “poop” at Alexa and these musicians profit. Are you familiar with the song Poopy Stupid Butt? “For a while, the couple was making around $100 a month from the song – and then COVID hit. Kids were stuck […]