I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? | | | | | Tom Cruise in "Minority Report" (2002) (DreamWorks Pictures) | | | | |  | “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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| | rantnrave:// Hello from KONA, HAWAII. Here for my favorite non-conference conference, THE LOBBY. It's the 10th anniversary of the best gathering and discussions with media and technology entrepreneurs. Shout-out to our awesome host, AUGUST CAPITAL/DAVID HORNIK... Data, data, data. Everyone talks about data. Sometimes I think founders are too audience-centric when it comes to product experiences. A "give the people what they want" mentality. Data optimizes current behaviors. It doesn't introduce new behaviors. You can build great product experiences based on what you think is right for the audience rather than what they think they want. Two famous quotes remind me of this. STEVE JOBS: "This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it." And HENRY FORD: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses"... Happy Birthday to KEVIN KRIM, BRAD PORTEUS, JANA RICH, JIM MOLOSHOK and BRANDEE BARKER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Experts almost unanimously agree that legalized sports betting in the U.S. is "inevitable." In Part 1 of Chalk's series, we examine how we might get there and what the market could look like. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Ever since childhood, Brian Regan had been made to feel stupid because of his severe dyslexia. So he thought no one would suspect him of stealing secrets. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The shiny skyscraper is a monument to the man’s bronzed and exaggerated style. | | |
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 | Shorenstein Center |
| October 25, 2016-Tim Wu, author of "The Master Switch" and professor at Columbia Law School, discussed his new book, "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads," during a conversation at the Shorenstein Center with Erie Meyer, Joan Shorenstein Fellow. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| It may be hard to imagine for anyone born after Ronald Reagan became president, but at the start of the 1980s, most Americans lived in homes where you could count the number of available TV channels on two hands. The cable revolution changed all that. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| While machine learning is introducing innovation and change to many sectors, it also is bringing trouble and worries to others. One of the most worrying aspects of emerging machine learning technologies is their invasiveness on user privacy. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| A finger prick, a mouth swab, and poof - your ideal meal plan | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| About $40 million has been raised for marijuana measures this year, with the majority going in support of legalization. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| In the 20th century it offered a bridge from the innocence of childhood to the responsibilities of adult life. Not any more. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| The people behind a ’50s VR progenitor, Atari’s ’80s think tank and other surprising milestones along the way. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Services like Tinder and Hinge are no longer shiny new toys, and some users are starting to find them more frustrating than fun. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| The fourth and final season of Sundance TV's 'Rectify' kicks off Wednesday and THR's TV critics discuss the show's slow-burning, under-seen brilliance. | | |
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 | Vocativ |
| Understanding why Rome's gladiatorial games came to an end begins with understanding what gave birth to them. | | |
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 | Spectrum |
| Studying the visual system could help scientists understand how autism alters neural functioning in the brain. | | |
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 | American Fashion Podcast |
| Fashion historian Patricia Mears is in the studio with us this week, talking about The Museum at FIT, and her perspective on the fashion business. | | |
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 | recode |
| Leonsis talks about that other big Time Warner deal on the latest Recode Decode. | | |
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 | VideoNuze |
| If you want a vivid contrast of one company succeeding in the real world vs. another flailing in its own dream world, there’s no better example than what’s currently happening at Comcast vs. what’s currently happening at AT&T. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| Long before the World Wide Web, the Soviets tried to save the USSR with a computer network. Why did their project never make it? | | |
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 | Resident Advisor |
| With a rich network of sound-obsessed cafés, bars and small clubs, Aaron Coultate explains why Tokyo might be the best place in the world to listen to music. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The league’s white players talk about what it’s like to be the minority | | |
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| The Guardian |
| In Playtest, a developer creates an augmented reality horror adventure that uses the player’s own memories to scare them. This is closer to reality than you may think. | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| Trump's "rigged election" claims aren't new. The conservative movement has waged a war on electoral democracy since its inception. | | |
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 | VEVO |
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