What I wrote
I wrote about the new partnership between Walmart and Shopify
Arguably the hottest topic in tech this week is the saga between Apple and Hey
I also talked a bit about Verisign, a company that makes most of the Internet work properly
If you are interested in Quick-Service-Restaurant franchise, I wrote about operating margin that can be expected by a franchisee
A couple of quick tutorials on SQL and rolling average in Power BI
Business
If You Want Hertz, Have Some Hertz
How Robinhood Convinced Millennials to Trade Their Way Through a Pandemic. Robinhood now has 10+ million users and has become a phenomenon lately
The Observer Effect’s interview with Marc Andreessen
Stemming from the interview above, I found Marc’s previous post on productivity hack
A great post on Structured Procrastination
Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list. With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.
Source: Structured Procrastination
The Risk of Outsourced Thinking
Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches
How Large Is the Apple App Store Ecosystem?
Other stuff
The Death of Engagement. A good read on America’s foreign policy with China over the last administrations
A collection of free books from Springer
In Japan and France, Riding Transit Looks Surprisingly Safe
Architects have designed a Martian city for the desert outside Dubai
Minh Quang Duong 