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9/1/18

Sep 1, 2018

  • Antibiotics not becoming ineffective from overuse, but from use of cleaning agents, toothpaste, etc.
  • A profile of cruise ship entertainers
  • Lego searching for environmentally friendly plastic
  • Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla tries to protect property rights on principle from his purple lair. Also recommends book Lying by Sam Harris
  • History of watermelon racist stereotype: it emerged after the Civil War when free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks’ newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence.
  • Market segmentation explained
    • Don’t ever offer an Unlimited price tier
    • List prices on your website, don’t allow reverse segmenting to happen
  • DavidFoster Wallace
  • Science of sleep
  • Coding zines and interactive explanations
  • Why you should throw your children’s art away
  • Ticketmaster enabling scalpers to succeed with its TradeDesk platform.
  • Effect of a $15 minimum wage in California - no sources cited
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