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Top Highlight IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz a16z.com The problem is desire. We need to *want* these things. The problem is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things. The problem is regulatory capture. We need to want new companies to build these things, even if incumbents dont like it, even if only to force the incumbents to build these things. And the problem is will. We need to build these things. Save Most Popular Friday Apr 24, 2020 The first modern pandemic gatesnotes.com This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post , here . The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to health, wealth, and well-being has already been enormous. This is Save Thursday Apr 23, 2020 Why we can't build vox.com The Capitol building in Washington, DC, on April 19. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images In a viral essay , venture capitalist Marc Andreessen makes a simple exhortation: It's time to build. Behind the coronavirus crisis, he writes, lies "our widespread inability to build." America has been unable to create enough coronavirus Save Wednesday Apr 22, 2020 The Death of the Department Store: 'Very Few Are Likely to Survive' nytimes.com Shuttered flagships. Empty malls. Canceled orders. Risks of bankruptcy. The coronavirus has hit the behemoths of the retail world. Credit... Andrew Sondern/The New York Times American department stores , once all-powerful shopping meccas that anchored malls and Main Streets across the country, have been dealt blow after blow in the Save Tuesday Apr 21, 2020 The iPad Magic Keyboard daringfireball.net Greatly anticipating its arrival, I unboxed the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard as soon as it appeared at my door, and before I even attached my iPad Pro, I was put off. It felt too stiff to open. Then I did attach my iPad Pro (immediate thought: "Man, these magnets are Save Monday Apr 20, 2020 We Are Living in a Failed State theatlantic.com Oliver Munday W hen the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. Save Sunday Apr 19, 2020 IT'S TIME TO BUILD - Andreessen Horowitz a16z.com Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it. Many of us would like to pin Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight Our Pandemic Summer theatlantic.com Everyone wants to know when this will end, said Devi Sridhar, a public-health expert at the University of Edinburgh. Thats not the right question. The right question is: How do we continue? Save Most Popular Friday Apr 17, 2020 Donald Trump's Greatest Escape politico.com Magazine His critics assume this crisis has to take Trump down, whether for the bungled response or the economic collapse. They're missing something important: He's been training for this moment his entire life. Illustration by The Red Dress 04/17/2020 05:06 AM EDT Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for Save Thursday Apr 16, 2020 The Quadrennial iPhone SE Schedule daringfireball.net The answer: Leap years, the summer Olympics, U.S. presidential elections. The question: What are things that occur every fourth year? Add to that hypothetical Jeopardy answer another item: new iPhone SE models. 1 Apple's SE strategy is commonly misunderstood, in two different ways. The first misunderstanding is that the SE Save Wednesday Apr 15, 2020 The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder wired.com Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it. On Friday, September 13, 2019, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, cofounders of the San Francisco internet security firm Cloudflare , stood on a slim Save Sunday Apr 12, 2020 The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve theatlantic.com Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . L ondon Breed wasn't going to wait around for COVID-19. San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the coronavirus when Breed, Save Saturday Apr 11, 2020 He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump's Failure on the Virus nytimes.com An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response. "Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion," President Trump said last month. He Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight Knowledge Debt amir.rachum.com You should, intentionally and tactically, decide which piece of information you can do without, for now. But you should also, intentionally and strategically, decide when to pay back that debt. Save Most Popular Friday Apr 10, 2020 I've read the plans to reopen the economy. They're scary. vox.com Medical personnel from Riverside University Health Systems administer a coronavirus test during drive-through testing. Bob Riha Jr./Getty Images Over the past few days, I've been reading the major plans for what comes after social distancing. You can read them, too. There's one from the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute , the Save Thursday Apr 9, 2020 Fran Lebowitz Is Never Leaving New York newyorker.com Fran Lebowitz is the patron saint of staying at home and doing nothing. She is famously averse to working, and famously resistant to technology; she has no cell phone or computer. She moved to New York City from Morristown, New Jersey, around 1970, the moment she was legally able to Save Wednesday Apr 8, 2020 Watchsmith Review: Create Your Own Apple Watch Complications macstories.net Watchsmith , the latest app from David Smith , was birthed from the inability to create third-party watch faces on the Apple Watch. As Smith has previously explained , while third-party faces may never be possible, several first-party faces already offer significant room for customization. The Infograph face, for example, Save Tuesday Apr 7, 2020 Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies stratechery.com Last week, without fanfare, Amazon Prime Video apps on iOS made a subtle change to the experience of purchasing or renting TV Shows and videos: That screen is not Apple's in-app purchase screen, which was, by fiat, the only way to buy digital content on iOS devices. That meant that Save Monday Apr 6, 2020 The 9/11 Era Is Over theatlantic.com Ray Stubblebine / Reuters I n a large windowless room in the bowels of the CIA, there is a sign that reads Every day is September 12th . When I first saw those words, during a tour of the agency's operations, I felt conflicted. As a New Yorker who witnessed Save Saturday Apr 4, 2020 A German Exception? Why the Country's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low nytimes.com The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 100,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low compared to those in many neighboring countries. In the heart of Berlin, Potsdamer Platz was nearly empty on Saturday, as people heeded orders to stay at home. Credit... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609

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Top Highlight How to Take Smart Notes: A Step-by-Step Guide - Nat Eliason nateliason.com The core idea of Smart Notes is that purely extracting highlights is generally a waste of time. A highlight speaks to you when you take it, but if you don't capture the idea that the highlight gave you, you're unlikely to remember the importance of that highlight later. Or even if you do feel some spark when revisiting the highlight, it might be a different interpretation. Save Most Popular Friday Apr 3, 2020 Modular Computer: iPad Pro as a Tablet, Laptop, and Desktop Workstation macstories.net My iPad Pro desktop setup. When I started my iPad-only journey in 2012, I was stuck in a hospital bed and couldn't use my Mac. It's a story I've told many times before : I had to figure out a way to get work done without a Mac, and I Save Thursday Apr 2, 2020 What Everyone's Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage marker.medium.com It isn't really about hoarding. And there isn't an easy fix. Will Oremus Apr 2 · 6 min read Stores have placed limits on purchases of toilet paper, yet they're still selling out, suggesting that hoarding isn't entirely to blame. Photo: Icon Sportswire/Getty Images A round the world, in countries Save Wednesday Apr 1, 2020 China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says bloomberg.com China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it's suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the Save Tuesday Mar 31, 2020 Unmasking Twitter stratechery.com On March 16 Twitter posted An Update on Our Continuity Strategy During COVID-19 that included this bit on how the company was changing its policies about content moderation: Broadening our definition of harm to address content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health Save Monday Mar 30, 2020 The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun theatlantic.com Ina Jang Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . For Geoff Frost, the first sign of the coronavirus culture war came last weekend on the golf course. His country club, located in an affluent suburb of Atlanta, Save Sunday Mar 29, 2020 The Fate of the News in the Age of the Coronavirus newyorker.com In 2009, as the economy struggled to rebound from the Great Recession, executives at the New York Times found themselves in a vigorous internal debate. They were trying to decide whether their content should go behind a paywall, making it available only to paying subscribers. There were compelling arguments on Save Saturday Mar 28, 2020 More Americans Should Probably Wear Masks for Protection nytimes.com Experts have started to question whether masks may offer at least some protection to healthy individuals and essential workers. While wearing a mask shouldn't replace hand-washing or social distancing, it may be better than nothing, experts say. Credit... Brittainy Newman/The New York Times The information in this article is outdated. Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2020 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 22717 · Oakland, CA 94609