Quartz launched as a new media startup in 2012. The Quartz daily email newsletter was the first newsletter I subscribed to. If you’ve ever seen it, you can also tell how I’ve been inspired by its formatting. This is an […]
“GiPHY was bought by Facebook. I was surprised since I participated in their early investing experiment, through Alphaworks, but never got any emails about this. In July of 2014, I invested the minimum, $2,500 in GiPHY.” | learn more
“TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.” | learn more
Five years ago, a wealthy Lakeview resident added creative landscaping to make a semi-private yard out of public park land. The park district tried without success to get the hedges removed. Block Club published the story Tuesday. People came to picnic there Wednesday. The […]
“And just as there’s a critical period for learning a language, so too is there a critical period for learning your musical tastes: It starts at 14 and peaks at 24.” | learn more
CNBC reports, “Americans earning less than $30,000 admit to spending about 13% of their income on lottery tickets”, and the average American buys $1,000 of lotto tickets. Meanwhile, about 1 in 3 people in the UK hold Premium Bonds where the interest on […]
“Investment bank Goldman Sachs has released a free-to-use family of fonts called Goldman Sans. But the fonts have a catch: according to the license, you’re not allowed to use them to criticize Goldman Sachs.” | learn more
This could be a big move toward driving adoption of cryptocurrency by a large group of new users. Telegram’s attempt might have accomplished this, except for those pesky securities law violations (see above). | learn more
“Pavel Durov’s grand cryptocurrency dreams for his Telegram messaging service are ending with an $18.5 million civil settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a pledge to return the more than $1.2 billion that investors had put into […]
Balaji Srinivasan has earned a second appearance in today’s newsletter. This is a presentation “on how the multiple concurrent crises of 2020 have led to further breakdowns in trust in both establishment media and social media, and how crypto could […]