It's about that time
Hello friends!
I just spent the weekend in Puerto Rico and learned that PR doesn't observe daylight savings time. Then I learned Hawaii, Arizona, also do not observe. But the Navajo nation (mainly located in Arizona) does. So if you have a Navajo friend, they'll be an hour ahead of you all winter. Weird. Also can we talk about Indiana's frustrating history with time zones? There was a West Wing episode about this once. Also also: Jim from the Newsroom is in that clip.
In personal news: I have an essay in the latest 99U book Make Your Mark. The book is a no-bullshit guide for those of us who like making stuff more than being a manager. And it's not just your average collection of paper, the book is designed in-house at Behance by our crack team of world-class designers. It's truly a beautiful object. So far so good, the book debuted at number 96 on Amazon. Buy your copy here for $11.
Yeah, I'm gonna talk about Uber, too. First Uber violated the privacy of its users, displaying notable user's cab rides as a party trick. Then at a maybe-sorta "off the record" dinner, an Uber executive declared his intentions to launch an "offensive" by using Uber data of media members who don't play nice with Uber. I'll save you the outrage. You know it's messed up. I know it's messed up. Mainly, I want to praise Ben Smith of Buzzfeed for reporting this (there were other journalists in the room as well). From Mitt Romney's 47% to Donald Sterling we should know that nothing is off the record anymore. The Uber exec should have known he had no privacy when discussing his attempts to violate the privacy of journalists around journalists. And it's that brazen arrogance with our data which should bother us most.
Follow up questions: But now, what happens to Uber? And will these violations of privacy ever be so egregious that people stop using the product? And does anyone outside of the media-tech-sphere really care? And what if there were audio or video of this dinner?
What would it look like if you ran an NBA team? Probably like the Denver Nuggets. Choice quote: "One rival team executive said the Nuggets called to propose a trade that was obviously unkosher under league rules, something that rarely, if ever, happens because no general manager wants to betray ignorance of such a rudimentary part of the gig. Most have the good sense to call the league to fact-check potential acquisitions."
Quick: is the U.S. in a better spot than it was two decades ago? For most of us, the answer is yes. High school dropout rates, college enrollment, drunken driving, traffic deaths, infant mortality, life expectancy, and male-female wage equality are all trending positive. To quote Louis C.K.: everything is amazing and no one is happy.
Why do working class whites hate Democrats? Welfare.
Did you know that in 2010 Jay-Z only donated $6,000 to his own charity? $raplyricelevatorjokebeyoncereference.
The average American makes $20 an hour. Fun trick: if you are salaried, take everything left of the comma and halve it for your hourly rate. If you make $60,000, that's about $30/hour. If you have two commas in your salary, good for you. Don't be like Jay-Z.
XoJane and ReadWrite are for sale. Why? Because when you have the option of running a tech company or a content company, tech wins every time. So what happens when Vox Media, the content company that has its own fancy CMS named Chorus, runs out of investor cash?
Jonathan Ive says he wishes design students learned how to actually make physical objects. Fun fact: at least three people have told me that they have spotted Ive in SF riding with his chauffeur that takes him to work everyday.
In 1974, Will Brown showed his raw, bracing pictures of Philadelphia to the MoMA. They told him to go pound sand. They were wrong. Typical NY.
Mom starts company and she's known as a "working mom." Guy starts company and.... he's just a guy. Why?
"Despite all the greed and hatred of the past iterations, no version of the dream had been so mechanical — so dehumanizing — as this dream of productivity." How the maniacal focus on productivity harms us all.
Okay, time to blow your mind. A bunch of scientists simulated a universe which only contained 1,000 particles. They found that the particles would inevitably clump together in a single ball and expand again. Sound familiar? It's possible that our "Big Bang" was only one in a series. And that time moves backwards and forwards from that point resulting in similar events.
"Lastly, I asked them to share a nude that they had sent to someone. And so many people did, without hesitation, or requiring anything in exchange." Why everybody, yes, even you, sexts. (this link is totally NSFW)
People who switch jobs more often in their 20s make more money. My most common career advice to friends usually relies on this stat. When you're young, opportunity costs are low and the upside is high. If you don't like your job, quit.
It may be winter, but you warm my heart.
--Sean
I just spent the weekend in Puerto Rico and learned that PR doesn't observe daylight savings time. Then I learned Hawaii, Arizona, also do not observe. But the Navajo nation (mainly located in Arizona) does. So if you have a Navajo friend, they'll be an hour ahead of you all winter. Weird. Also can we talk about Indiana's frustrating history with time zones? There was a West Wing episode about this once. Also also: Jim from the Newsroom is in that clip.
In personal news: I have an essay in the latest 99U book Make Your Mark. The book is a no-bullshit guide for those of us who like making stuff more than being a manager. And it's not just your average collection of paper, the book is designed in-house at Behance by our crack team of world-class designers. It's truly a beautiful object. So far so good, the book debuted at number 96 on Amazon. Buy your copy here for $11.
Yeah, I'm gonna talk about Uber, too. First Uber violated the privacy of its users, displaying notable user's cab rides as a party trick. Then at a maybe-sorta "off the record" dinner, an Uber executive declared his intentions to launch an "offensive" by using Uber data of media members who don't play nice with Uber. I'll save you the outrage. You know it's messed up. I know it's messed up. Mainly, I want to praise Ben Smith of Buzzfeed for reporting this (there were other journalists in the room as well). From Mitt Romney's 47% to Donald Sterling we should know that nothing is off the record anymore. The Uber exec should have known he had no privacy when discussing his attempts to violate the privacy of journalists around journalists. And it's that brazen arrogance with our data which should bother us most.
Follow up questions: But now, what happens to Uber? And will these violations of privacy ever be so egregious that people stop using the product? And does anyone outside of the media-tech-sphere really care? And what if there were audio or video of this dinner?
What would it look like if you ran an NBA team? Probably like the Denver Nuggets. Choice quote: "One rival team executive said the Nuggets called to propose a trade that was obviously unkosher under league rules, something that rarely, if ever, happens because no general manager wants to betray ignorance of such a rudimentary part of the gig. Most have the good sense to call the league to fact-check potential acquisitions."
Quick: is the U.S. in a better spot than it was two decades ago? For most of us, the answer is yes. High school dropout rates, college enrollment, drunken driving, traffic deaths, infant mortality, life expectancy, and male-female wage equality are all trending positive. To quote Louis C.K.: everything is amazing and no one is happy.
Why do working class whites hate Democrats? Welfare.
Did you know that in 2010 Jay-Z only donated $6,000 to his own charity? $raplyricelevatorjokebeyoncereference.
The average American makes $20 an hour. Fun trick: if you are salaried, take everything left of the comma and halve it for your hourly rate. If you make $60,000, that's about $30/hour. If you have two commas in your salary, good for you. Don't be like Jay-Z.
XoJane and ReadWrite are for sale. Why? Because when you have the option of running a tech company or a content company, tech wins every time. So what happens when Vox Media, the content company that has its own fancy CMS named Chorus, runs out of investor cash?
Jonathan Ive says he wishes design students learned how to actually make physical objects. Fun fact: at least three people have told me that they have spotted Ive in SF riding with his chauffeur that takes him to work everyday.
In 1974, Will Brown showed his raw, bracing pictures of Philadelphia to the MoMA. They told him to go pound sand. They were wrong. Typical NY.
Mom starts company and she's known as a "working mom." Guy starts company and.... he's just a guy. Why?
"Despite all the greed and hatred of the past iterations, no version of the dream had been so mechanical — so dehumanizing — as this dream of productivity." How the maniacal focus on productivity harms us all.
Okay, time to blow your mind. A bunch of scientists simulated a universe which only contained 1,000 particles. They found that the particles would inevitably clump together in a single ball and expand again. Sound familiar? It's possible that our "Big Bang" was only one in a series. And that time moves backwards and forwards from that point resulting in similar events.
"Lastly, I asked them to share a nude that they had sent to someone. And so many people did, without hesitation, or requiring anything in exchange." Why everybody, yes, even you, sexts. (this link is totally NSFW)
People who switch jobs more often in their 20s make more money. My most common career advice to friends usually relies on this stat. When you're young, opportunity costs are low and the upside is high. If you don't like your job, quit.
It may be winter, but you warm my heart.
--Sean
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