I& #39;m trying something new.

Each Saturday I& #39;ll post a few of the best news articles, blog posts, podcasts, projects, tweets, products, or really anything I& #39;ve come across in the previous week and found interesting, sprinkled with a bit of commentary.

Let& #39;s go https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: RĂŒckhand Zeigefinger nach unten">
Mark Zuckerberg surfs in Hawaii with way too much sunscreen

https://nypost.com/2020/07/19/mark-zuckerberg-surfboards-in-hawaii-with-way-too-much-sunscreen/">https://nypost.com/2020/07/1...
"In 2018, 80 percent of all IUD placements in China were performed in Xinjiang despite accounting for a mere 1.8 percent of China’s population. These IUDs can be removed only by state-approved surgery—or else prison terms will follow." https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/uighur-genocide-xinjiang-china-surveillance-sterilization/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/1...
"While weekly meeting time increased by 10% overall [
] individual meetings actually shrank in duration. We had 22% more meetings of 30 minutes or less and 11% fewer meetings of more than one hour."

Detailed data from Microsoft& #39;s shift to full remote. https://hbr.org/2020/07/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce">https://hbr.org/2020/07/m...
"Naming yourself after the character who stole from the rich to give to the poor, while making a ton of money off of your customers for, again, the billionaire who literally bought the most expensive house in America, could make even Adam Neumann blush." https://themargins.substack.com/p/robinhood-and-how-to-lose-money">https://themargins.substack.com/p/robinho...
"The Adjacent Users are aware of a product and possibly tried using the it, but are not able to successfully become an engaged user. This is typically because the current product positioning or experience has too many barriers to adoption for them." https://andrewchen.co/the-adjacent-user-theory/">https://andrewchen.co/the-adjac...
Emily Kramer, former vice president of marketing at Carta, the $3B equity management startup known for its study on the gender disparity around equity, is suing the company for underpaying her $50k and giving her 1/3 the equity of her male coworkers. https://medium.com/@emilykramer/equity-for-all-1ae9ac42679e">https://medium.com/@emilykra...
"By 2030, Apple will be 100% carbon neutral."

While the goal should be not to pollute at all in the first time, it’s unrealistic for now, so being carbon neutral sounds like a good stopgap until we get there. https://medium.com/@lisapjackson/apples-promise-for-2030-cadc10177595">https://medium.com/@lisapjac...
Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

https://flashbak.com/photographer-updates-postcards-of-1960s-resorts-into-their-abandoned-ruins-388534/">https://flashbak.com/photograp...
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university that would rival Stanford and MIT and funnel tech workers into government work

Yikes https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😬" title="Grimasse schneidendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Grimasse schneidendes Gesicht"> https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-us-digital-service-academy-2020-7?r=MX&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com/google-er...
"LinkedIn cuts 960 jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hiring"

Given 960 jobs only represent 6% of its global workforce, it looks more like using the pandemic excuse to get rid of some bloat https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™€ïž" title="Achselzuckende Frau (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau (heller Hautton)"> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-linkedin-layoffs-idUSKCN24M0XB">https://www.reuters.com/article/u...
"eBay agrees to sell classifieds business in $9.2 billion deal"

Wondering what’s the valuation of Craisglist, or even Facebook Marketplace if it was a separate business https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ€”" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht"> https://www.axios.com/ebay-sell-classifieds-adevinta-4031a11b-524c-4843-86b3-ccd74cb442e0.html">https://www.axios.com/ebay-sell...
A collection of vintage Japanese boom boxes

http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/25372-2 ">https://blog.presentandcorrect.com/25372-2&q...
"Microsoft is reverting to past behavior. They created a weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, force installing it and blocking its removal, a carbon copy of their illegal behavior during the ‘browser wars.’"

Netscape again? https://slackhq.com/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft">https://slackhq.com/slack-fil...
When a company gets their SDK hacked, it& #39;s a security breach for all the customers that included the SDK their apps.

AWS S3, Amazon’s file storage solution, has been the source of innumerable company breaches in the past because of misconfigurations. https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/21/twilio_javascript_sdk_code_injection/">https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/2...
Some of the stunning winners of the 2020 iPhone Photography Awards

https://mashable.com/article/iphone-photography-awards-2020-winners/">https://mashable.com/article/i...
The Navy Says It’s Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is

From “video games are the cause of schoolmass shootings” to “the U.S. Navy’s esports team is recruiting sailors in the world’s biggest video game streaming platform” https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß" aria-label="Emoji: LĂ€chelndes Gesicht mit offenem Mund und Angstschweiß">

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg847j/the-navy-says-its-not-recruiting-on-twitch-this-handbook-shows-it-is?">https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...
Talkdesk Worth $3 Billion With Franklin Templeton, Och Backing

Talkdesk Inc., which makes cloud-based customer service software, has raised $143 million in a new funding round

B2B SaaS https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🩄" title="Einhorngesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Einhorngesicht"> with Portuguese founders and engineering offices in Portugal https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŸ‡”đŸ‡č" title="Flagge von Portugal" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Portugal"> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-23/talkdesk-worth-3-billion-with-franklin-templeton-och-backing">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...
This 83 and 84 year old couple, owners of a laundromat in Taiwan, pose with the clothes clients abandon in their store.

https://www.instagram.com/wantshowasyoung/">https://www.instagram.com/wantshowa...
Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack

It’s bad when any company gets hit by a ransomware attack, but it’s specially scary when that company stores user’s location data history... https://www.zdnet.com/article/garmin-services-and-production-go-down-after-ransomware-attack/">https://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
"Mr. Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corporation, a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth”"

Can 2020 get any weirder? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/2...
"There’s a real, psychological fulfillment of being “in” with the crowd and stoking envy among those around you."

Must read for all marketers, “growth hackers” and creators launching a new project. https://medium.com/@gabygoldberg/the-value-of-a-velvet-rope-effects-of-hype-and-exclusivity-on-launch-strategies-8e8061cf517e">https://medium.com/@gabygold...
Google collected usage data on 3rd party apps, to inform product strategy

Facebook had a “research program” to collect mobile browsing data to spot new trends. Apple developers have a term for when their product gets copied by Apple: being “sherlocked” https://www.theinformation.com/articles/internal-google-program-taps-data-on-rival-android-apps">https://www.theinformation.com/articles/...
By the time Intel catches up to 7nm CPUs, Apple and it’s chip manufacturer, TSMC, will be on 3nm chips and Apple will have transitioned its entire Mac product line to Apple Silicon https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😳" title="Errötetes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Errötetes Gesicht"> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7nm-processors-now-one-year-behind-expectations">https://www.tomshardware.com/news/inte...
The former Renault and Nissan head fled Japan last December hidden in a musical instrument case.

PROTIP: If you’re going to pay illegal smugglers using Bitcoin, don’t use one of the exchanges with stricter KYC policies. https://www.coindesk.com/carlos-ghosns-600k-crypto-escape-fee-paid-via-coinbase">https://www.coindesk.com/carlos-gh...
More people are using Twitter while sheltering at home, but companies are struggling in a weakened economy, and not spending on marketing.

There are rumors of a new subscription product, but it’s unclear what features it would provide users. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/twitter-twtr-q2-2020-earnings.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/2...
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