A quick thanks to everyone who sent classical music recs the other week. I've been enjoying this Andras Schiff album (via Vinson) in particular.

Alphabet is looking to sell Boston Dynamics.
I'm reading The Mythical Man-Month, the legendary book of essays on software development management, and am really enjoying it. It's worth reading the book's Wikipedia page, which has a bunch of good tidbits; see also these two sections.
How Studio Neat built a healthy, low-touch business.
Managed by Q is giving equity to their cleaners & handymen.
A quick shout out to YC for getting serious about hardware. It was only a year ago that they established it as an explicit thing, and now their list of hardware companies is really impressive. Applications for their next class close this week - I'm looking forward to seeing who pops up there :)

Via Noah, an *awesome* video tour of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with Tom Lipton. That big French lathe at 15:00ish is really cool, but you really should watch the whole thing.
Geoff Manaugh on the future of glue (and composites) in construction. Incidentally, VHB tape is *awesome.*
Bunnie Huang on bookbinding. This is partly just to say that you should do stuff and write blog posts about it.

A contrarian piece about how autonomous vehicles will really hurt Uber.
If autonomous cars drive 23 hrs/day, the miles rack up *fast* (via Reilly).
Little robots, working together like ants to move big things.
The MTA will close the M line for 10 months in order to make upgrades in advance of the L closure.

I like the nyc-architecture.com "Top 10 Skyscrapers" page. The order seems to be arbitrary and the layout is very web 1.0; the list also contains not ten or even twenty items but 21. But it's a good list, and a number of the actual building pages contain some pretty good info & pictures.
How Trump is wrong about manufacturing jobs & China.
Why AlphaGo is not AGI.

BuzzFeed is hiring fellows for their hardware (ish) OpenLab (via Adam).
On GM's acquisition of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle startup.
From Gabe, an extremely detailed piece about Google's containerization systems (most of this is way over my head).
Autodesk is giving board seats to a few activist investors.

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