TLDR Daily with Matt & Co

Satya Patel from Homebrew on the Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeover-college/

Danielle David on why we need to stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/smarter-living/stop-asking-kids-what-they-want-to-be-when-they-grow-up.html

Mike Mignano shares how Helvetica Gets an Upgrade https://mymodernmet.com/helvetica-now-monotype/

Harper Reed on the short story Goodnight, Melancholy how technology relates to quarantine and the Corona Virus.  http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/xia_03_17/

Why there haven’t been more billion-dollar acquisitions for direct-to-consumer commerce startups. https://newconsumer.com/2019/04/billion-dollar-direct-consumer-deals-warby-parker-harrys-glossier-dollar-shave-club/

Marah Lidey, co-CEO I’d Shine on The Feedback Fallacy. Full article here: https://hbr.org/2019/03/the-feedback-fallacy

Margot Boyer-Dry talks about AI Priests https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/9/20851753/ai-religion-robot-priest-mindar-buddhism-christianity

John Borthwick from Betaworks, on The Adversarial Persuasion Machine https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/the-adversarial-persuasion-machine-a-conversation-with-james-williams

Filmmaker Jonathan Kaufman,  on a single paragraph from the book The Poisoned City about the Flint Michigan water crisis. http://annaclark.net/the-poisoned-city/

Naomi Hirabayashi, Co-CEO of Shine on The Constructive Power of Self-Doubt https://forge.medium.com/the-constructive-power-of-self-doubt-e1e33b8394cd

Owen Grover, CEO of Pocket Casts discusses 'Spotify Teardown' and whether Spotify is a Media Company https://www.getrevue.co/profile/pennyfractions/issues/penny-fractions-why-you-must-read-spotify-teardown-163039

Nathan Baschez, on the 7 powers of Business Strategy https://www.amazon.com/7-Powers-Foundations-Business-Strategy/dp/0998116319

Abigail Edgecliffe-Johnson from The Shutdown on the exact day the Day the Dinosaurs Died https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

Semil Shah from Haystack shows how even a tweet sometimes needs a TLDR: https://twitter.com/semil/status/1154918822291263489?s=21

Depressed and Anxious? These Video Games Want to Help https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/technology/personaltech/depression-anxiety-video-games.html

The Daily Lottery Was Originally a Harlem Game. Then Albany Wanted In. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/nyregion/numbers-harlem-new-york-lottery.html

Article:  "The Murky Ethics of the Ugly-Produce Business" by Amanda Mull of The Atlantic.

Allison Behrenger talks about the article  "Do You Know What's in Your Cosmetics?" by The New York Times Editorial Board https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/opinion/cosmetics-safety-makeup.html

"The circle of brand life:  retail is dying as retail is thriving" by Eric Feng https://medium.com/@efeng/the-circle-of-brand-life-retail-is-dying-as-retail-is-thriving-ac9df55f9143

"Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?" by Rowan Jacobsen. https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science

"Drudge Report" by Erin Griffith https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/business/against-hustle-culture-rise-and-grind-tgim.html

"The Dream Machine" by Mitchell Waldrop https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Computing/dp/014200135X

"Lost Connections" by Johann Hari https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Connections-Uncovering-Depression-Unexpected/dp/163286830X

Article:  "How to talk to Chloe Condon on Twitter" https://medium.com/@endingwithali/how-to-talk-to-chloe-condon-on-twitter-3414597ae95c Latest episode of TLDR Daily with Matt & Co

Erik Berlin from Breaker talked about the Techcrunch article Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them. Here's the original article: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

This was an experiment. Should I do more of these?

I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/women-want-to-be-rich.html

Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/kensington-heroin-opioid-philadelphia.html

Why Momofuku’s Billionaire Investor Is Aggressively Funding NYC’s Top Restaurants https://ny.eater.com/2018/10/5/17938682/rse-ventures-stephen-ross-matt-higgins-momofuku-milk-bar-and-pizza-bluestone-lane-resy

The Unlikely Politics of a Digital Contraceptive https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-unlikely-politics-of-a-digital-contraceptive

Does the Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students? http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/04/acc-entry-does-the-education-system-adequately-serve-advanced-students/

Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/style/prairie-woman-style-batsheva-doen.html

R.L. Stine on the Importance of Scaring the Hell Out of Children https://medium.com/s/youthnow/r-l-stine-on-the-importance-of-scaring-the-hell-out-of-children-7214cda05c14

This Is How Much VCs Are Paid https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/14/this-is-how-much-vcs-are-paid/

What’s next for podcasting? The industry is taking the first steps toward paid subscriptions and exclusive content https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/25/whats-next-for-podcasting-subscriptions-and-exclusives/

On the book, "Suggestible You" https://www.suggestibleyou.com/

When to Use—and Not Use—an Em-Dash https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/when-to-use-and-not-use-an-em-dash

The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Every Adult Should Have a Bedtime https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/having-a-regular-bedtime-is-good-for-you.html

Remember Zagat? The iconic burgundy guidebook that helped shape the modern consumer era is back https://www.fastcompany.com/90227760/remember-zagat-the-iconic-burgundy-guidebook-that-helped-shape-the-modern-consumer-era-is-back

Alexa skills can now offer one-time-use purchases, like in-game hints or points https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/alexa-skills-can-now-offer-one-time-use-purchases-like-in-game-hints-or-points/

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051

The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/arts/color-factory-museum-of-ice-cream-rose-mansion-29rooms-candytopia.html

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