Pathing.
- Brendan Baker: "Saying 'No' to managers shows maturity and confidence."
- BI: "Mobile Payment Startup Square Could Sell Soon After Big Losses."
- Steve Blank: "Corporate acquisitions of startups usually fail. Here's why."
- 3D Printing Industry: "Proto Labs Acquires Fine Line Prototyping."
- IEEE Spectrum: "Google's Autonomous Cars Are Smarter Than Ever at 700,000 Miles." Watch these videos.
Manufacturing.
- MIT Technology Review: "Neuromorphic Chips." The tech here is well above my head, but the implications for AI are apparently huge. Also, I obviously need to learn more about Qualcomm.
- IEEE Spectrum: "Nanoporous Material Combines the Best of Batteries and Supercapacitors."
- IEEE Spectrum: "New 3-D Printer Makes Soft Interactive Objects."
- NYTimes: "Sols, a 3-D Printing Start-Up, Raises $6.4 Million."
- MIT Review: "Microscale 3-D Printing."
- 3D Printing Industry: "Breakthrough: Digital Light Processing For Metals."
Logistics.
- Steve Cheney: "On The New Edge Network and The Future of Local Commerce." Steve works for Estimote; this post talks about the future of iBeacon.
- Vox: "The way we board airplanes makes absolutely no sense." This is super fun.
- Ben Thompson: "The Problem with Payments."
- Bloomberg: "Musk’s SpaceX to Sue U.S. Air Force Over Launch Monopoly."
- The Guardian: "Google's robot army in action." These are so much fun!
- MIT Tech Review: "Now Your Phone's Tilt Sensor Can Identify You." This is really interesting.
- FiveThirtyEight: "Flight Delayed? Your Pilot Really Can Make Up the Time in the Air."
Reflecting.
- Slate: "Elon's Élan." How Elon Musk has used other people's money to build his empire.
- Nautilus: "Decoding Nature's Soundtrack."
- Jason Fried: "Is Your Door Really Open?" On soliciting feedback from your employees.
Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.
- Motherboard/Vice: "America's Nuclear Arsenal Still Runs Off Floppy Disks."
And.
Love, Spencer.
ps - Thank you to everyone - especially my friends at Gin Lane, Undercurrent, and on twitter - who referred me to everything here.
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