Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
"Cook is maintaining, by words and actions, most of Apple's unique corporate culture. But shifts of behavior and tone are absolutely apparent; some of them affect the core of Apple's critical product-development process"
Want to know how to lose weight, and keep it off, without surgery, supplements, weird diets or extreme exercise? The answer, for addressing weight gain and many other ills, lies in behavioural technology
Another magnificent piece of writing from Zimmer. This time on arctic adventurers, fish, and "one of the most crucial transitions in history of life": How the first tetrapods emerged from water, and started to move about on dry land
Enjoyable two-part interview with Jonathan Ive, Apple's design guru. "We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense"
Notes from a conversation in 1991. Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions", published 50 years ago, led its own revolution in the history and philosophy of science. Even though, in Kuhn's view, it was widely misunderstood
Acquisition of Motorola is complete. And now the hard work begins. From managing supply chains to providing end customer support, the low-margin world of hardware manufacture brings numerous challenges. How will Google cope?
Inside the world of DIY synthetic biology. Where amateurs attempt genetic engineering in homemade labs. Will it lead to a wave of scientific breakthroughs, and valuable new life forms? Or a new generation of Dr Frankensteins?
Conversation with Perry Chen, co-founder of online funding platform Kickstarter. "You have systems that are based on who you know. That’s what we want to break apart. Good ideas can bubble up without these gatekeepers saying yes"
Against Facebook. Provocative from the off: "Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it." It's a marketing business, run by geeks. It's not the next Google, it's the next AOL
For one thing, no more parking spaces. "In peak periods, virtually all cars will be on the roads driving people around. In off-peak periods, cars will still be on the roads, they’ll just pull over to the side of the road and stop"
Short, fascinating piece on JK, a 20-year-old blind man with rare medical condition hyperthymesia. He can recall each day of his life with stunning accuracy. A perfect autobiographical memory. Only second documented case in history
Notion that there are more universes separate from ours is one of the most polarising concepts to have emerged from physics in decades. Is it the next phase in our understanding of reality, or nonsense? And why should we care?
"Give us a world where half our institutions are run by women"
Henry Ford, on market research
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse"
