2014-04-18

Pathing.

• Maria Popova: "A Letter of Advice to Young Contrarians from Christopher Hitchens." I like this.
• Fast Company: "The truth about Google X: An exclusive look behind the secretive lab's closed doors." Must-read.

Manufacturing.

• AppleInsider: "Apple nabs senior RF engineers from Broadcom amid rumors of new in-house baseband team."
• Nick Bilton: "Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow." Good overview.
• MIT Technology Review: "First Graphene Audio Speaker Easily Outperforms Traditional Designs."
• Science Daily: "Graphene supermaterial goes superpermeable: Can be used to distill alcohol." This is super cool.
• ExtremeTech: "Bill Gates funds creation of thin, light, impenetrable graphene condoms." This is crazy!
• Bloomberg: "'Gods' Make Comeback at Toyota as Humans Steal Jobs From Robots." Totota moves to reintegrate making & engineering.
• ExtremeTech: "IBM builds graphene chip that's 10,000 times faster, using standard CMOS processes."

Logistics.

• Steven Sinofsky: "You're Doin' It Wrong." On the cyclical nature of productivity tools.
• Bloomberg: "Alibaba Agrees to Buy AutoNavi in $1.5 Billion Map Deal." You should be taking Alibaba really seriously.
• Jacob Goldstein: "To Increase Productivity, UPS Monitors Drivers' Every Move."
• Business Insider: "22 Astounding Facts About Alibaba, The Giant Chinese E-Commerce Company Yahoo Depends On." Honestly, comparisons to Yahoo are sooo besides the point - but this article is absolutely striking.

Reflecting.

• Walt Hickey/538: "A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross." Yeah. The fluffy haired guy from "The Joy of Painting." This is TL;DR but worth scanning.
• Tyler Cowen: "Claims about potato chips." No trans fats.

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• Homeli: "Paper Crawling Mini Mobile Robotic Printer by ZUtA Labs." This looks cool.

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