Nate Weiner

Today, we face one of the promises of Silicon Valley: to quantify us. To average our individuality out. To train a model on all of those collective averages, creating the ultimate average response.

Governing requires saying no to one’s strongest supporters and yes to one’s fiercest opponents. To have that presence of mind requires a clear and unified vision from the president. “Without an ideology or a worldview, all you have is a scramble for self-preservation and self-aggrandizement,”

Can't recommend this enough.

This was 👌

Heart breaking story

This is horrendous.

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Fascinating.

The best part of this video is not Chris Pratt. It's that apparently Will.I.Am has never seen a deck of cards before.

Sandy Hook PSA. Damn.

This interview was great. A ray of optimism in an uncertain week and an insightful look into technology and our economy.

His secret was an ability to set off a Pavlovian reaction among his leftist opponents, which engendered instantaneous sympathy in most moderate voters. Mr. Trump is no different.

America must insist on qualified appointees with integrity

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This is the kind of dilemma presidents face all the time. The Oval Office debate might go something like this: The Commerce Secretary complains, “Mr. President, this strong dollar is just killing our manufacturers; they can’t compete with this kind of appreciation.” The Treasury Secretary, who is in charge of the currency, responds, “It’s a necessary evil, Mr. President; our economy is booming so much that global investors just can’t get enough of United States assets.”

Read the first section. We need to find a way to solve this news bubble problem. (Especially Facebook)

No way to heal the divide if we are being separated into two radically different (and typically non-accurate) views of the world.

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Well this is the best thing ever.

So awesome they brought these back. Proud of Bruce Bildsten for knocking it out of the park again.

A story of what the next 50 years might look like if SpaceX pulls this off.

Damn.

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In his papers on relativity, Einstein showed that time was relative to the observer,” says Lanza. “Our paper takes this one step further, arguing that the observer actually creates it.”

Wouldn't surprise me. Cannot get enough bread.

Not only could the discovery see a new flavour added to the list of tastes, which currently includes salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami, but the findings might also explain why we love such starchy foods so much.

The greatest threat to progress is the belief that something is too complex to fix

It pains me not to be able to experience this.

The sky is just awash of stars when you’re on the far side of the moon, and you don’t have any sunlight to cut down on the lower intensity, dimmer stars. You see them all, and it’s all just a sheet of white.

In 2022 we are going to bomb an asteroid to see if the plot of Armageddon was accurate.

Very cool overview of the mission. This will be rad to watch.

Oh how I've missed him.

There is time, too, for fantasy about what life would be like outside the White House. Mr. Emanuel, who is now the mayor of Chicago but remains close to the president, said he and Mr. Obama once imagined moving to Hawaii to open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white). Their dream was that they would no longer have to make decisions.

If you live in a country that’s been targeted like this, the terrorists are fighting a battle for your mind, don’t give it to them. Hopefully, in resisting them, the numbers help .

Loved this quote. Applies to leadership roles as a whole.

I think the best thing a director can do is create an environment, a really open and free environment, and I have to say that I worked with some of the best directors on the planet, and they all do it differently, but the one quality that they all share is that the great ones all create a really highly collaborative environment where it's basically a battlefield of ideas. The ego is completely checked at the door, so they don't show up with this is the way it's going to go. I mean director is kind of the wrong word for what they're doing. They don't say I'm directing you to do this and this is the only way it's going to go. They show up with an idea that is their best idea, and then they're open to everybody else's idea and then they're willing to instantly jettison their own idea if faced with a better one. So they're essentially the arbiter of taste, but they create an environment where everyone feels free to lob ideas at them, and that's how people start iterating on each other's ideas and that's collaboration, the best ideas emerges.

It's been interesting to me over 20 years to look at these master directors, the people who would be commonly perceived as master directors and realize they're allegiance is to what they're making and not their own ego.

The interceptors had run out of missiles – all 208 of them.

I love the Internet.

*tears hair out*

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

On Earth, we know this phenomenon as the northern lights, or the aurora borealis. They also happen in the south pole (aurora australis). We just don’t hear the term “southern lights” often because there are fewer people there to witness them.

Never knew about this. 😥

Centripetal force in action.

Learned a lot of things I never knew about something I see every day.

Sums up the anger and frustration with our inability to make progress against gun violence.

Surreal.

H/t Nikki

The manager told me that the airport’s original 600 person staff had been cut down to 300 and that there were only 10 to 20 passengers per day.

Simple but perfect.

Great explanation of how Improv actors work together.

Can't find words to describe this - but you need to read it.

That's about right.

Incredible. If you read only one thing this week, let it be this.

Interesting conversation on Twitter tonight regarding Apple and whether it's doing enough to prioritize AI, etc - Reminds me of this post I wrote 3 years, still seems relevant.

Ultimately the story of iOS vs Android is one of a hardware company becoming a knowledge company vs. a knowledge company becoming a hardware company.

The long awaited sequel to Drive!