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WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
Management As Process
The org a hurdle to overcome but rather the job itself
Product Hunt's New CEO: Josh Buckley | Product Hunt
Today we’re introducing the new CEO of Product Hunt. But first, the backstory…
Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It — MatthewBall.vc
The content, business models, and health of every media category is driven by technology. And audio technology has never been so diverse and dynamic. After decades of struggles, audio is ready to grow, not just replace.
The Observation Deck » The soul of a new computer company
Sriram Krishnan
@patrickc Curious to see what this turns into
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing".
XB-1 Supersonic Rollout
See XB-1 unveiled for the first time in its fully assembled form, learn about the innovative technology behind supersonic travel, and enjoy presentations fro...
The Observer Effect
Sriram Krishnan
Hope you folks enjoyed this. Was a blast to put this together. Send me thoughts/feedback. Subscribe to @ObserverOrg or at theobservereffect.org for more!
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White Noise
Reader. Writer. Thinker. Sharing the Noise that emanates from Tom White. An amalgam of fictional prose and useful, nonfictional insight derived from indiscriminate reading, listening, conversing, thinking, and real-life experiencing.
Sriram Krishnan
Want to thank many folks who helped out with this. Starting with @eldsjal for being generous with his time, @DusteeJenkins for helping make it happen, @shishirmehrotra , Bing Gordon, @shak and many others who helped me with prep. And tomwhitenoise.com who drove the editing.
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The Observer Effect – Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek on how he spends his time, learns and makes decisions.
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Sriram Krishnan
NEW OBSERVER EFFECT 🚨: Thrilled to publish our interview with Daniel Ek, Founder/CEO of Spotify.
In a wide conversation @eldsjal talks decisions, learning from people like Zuck/Beyoncé, being a dad, "algotorial" and much much more.
Full interview👇
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Tech survey
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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Sriram Krishnan
POLL: My poll earlier this week stuck with me. There's very poor data on what ppl in tech actually believe on various active topics.
Constructed this light survey with some friends. If you work in tech, would appreciate you filling this out.
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Facebook Groups to gain suite of new tools for managing discussions, surfacing public content – TechCrunch
Facebook is introducing a suite of new features for Facebook Groups, the private social networking product now used by over 1.8 billion people every month. At the company’s digitally hosted Facebook Communities Summit today, Facebook detailed a set...
Alex Schultz
I am super proud to be Facebook’s next cmo. Antonio Lucio has left huge shoes and a great team behind and I’m really excited to get stuck in with them. Gracias, Antonio for being a great friend,...
Coinbase is a mission focused company
There have been a lot of difficult events in the world this year: a global pandemic, shelter in place, social unrest, widespread protests…
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Sriram Krishnan
Super interesting to see Coinbase's stance on clarifying their mission ( see -> blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-…).
Since this has been an active discussion in many places, setting up a poll on whether people want to see other companies do this.
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Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More - Andreessen Horowitz
This interview was recorded earlier this year and originally appeared on The Observer Effect; it has only been lightly edited for formatting here.
On productivity
Let’s get into it. Over a decade ago, you wrote a famous post called …
Make Westing
On merging 'The Pull Request' to the narrative repository
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Sriram Krishnan
A compelling argument for the "west" from @antoniogm in new publication "Pull Request". Highly recommend subscribing.
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Inside Facebook Reality Labs Research: The future of audio
TL;DR: The audio team at Facebook Reality Labs Research is working on novel technologies to enable both audio presence and perceptual superpowers, letting us hear better in noisy environments with our future AR Glasses. In the latest entry of our...
Game of Thrones showrunners are adapting The Three-Body Problem as first major Netflix project
The whole trilogy is coming as a Netflix series.
Life beyond coronavirus? Here's how SF rebounded after the 1918 Spanish flu
With cautiousness becoming the new national pastime, will people attend crowded events once we get the all clear? San Francisco faced the same questions in the past and responded by filling the seats.