What I wrote last week
My experience so far with Amazon Shopper Panel
Business
An interview with an Apple veteran who shed some light on the culture of secrecy
Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google’s Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use. If you have time, look for the opinion written by Justice Breyer on API. It’s good!
Amazon Global Supply Chain and Fulfillment Center Network. Just look at the number of fulfillment centers and warehouses Amazon has!
How We Bootstrapped a $1M ARR Email Client
Shopify: The E-commerce On-Ramp. I may have found another favorite podcast. The first episode on Shopify doesn’t disappoint!
What I found interesting
A landmark study showed promising results that could help us produce a vaccine for HIV. A remarkable time to be alive. You gotta admire the work that scientists around the world put in.
Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds. “The Great Barrier Reef is all but doomed, with between 70 and 99 per cent of corals set for destruction unless immediate “transformative action” is taken to reverse global warming, according to a new report. The Australian Academy of Science says the more ambitious target of the Paris Climate Agreement of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees has now slipped out of reach and is “virtually impossible”.
What the U.S. Can Learn From China’s Infatuation With Infrastructure.
Apple has been granted a patent for Systems relating to a National ID Verification System
Interesting stats
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades. If I have a kid, he or she will likely have electric vehicles as cheap as ones with a combustible engine.
7% of America’s population or more than 2.3 million Americans don’t use the Internet
Amazon reached 10% of the US advertising market
Plant-based food market grew to $7 billion in 2020, up 27% year over year
80% of Europe’s in-store transactions are now contactless, according to Mastercard
