Tag: AirPods

Weekly readings

Weekly readings – 16th May 2020

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A scathing critique of AWS from this engineer

Related to the link above, this is quite a blog post from someone who used to work at Amazon and was working at Google at the time of the writing

Content, Cars, and Comparisons in the “Streaming Wars”. Matthew Ball’s essays are always great to read

The secrets behind the runaway success of Apple’s AirPods

How Morning Brew grew to $13m in revenue with 33 employees

Vauban Architecture: The Foundation of Central and Northern Vietnam’s Citadels

The latest memo from Howard Marks

How the most prized degree in India became the most worthless

WeChat Surveillance Explained

If Landlords Get Wiped Out, Wall Street Wins, Not Renters

All applications used at GitLab

Chicago Will Now Require Food Delivery Apps to Disclose Itemized Cost Breakdown. You can protect restaurants or you can protect delivery apps. In this case, I don’t think you can do both. I am glad Chicago went with restaurants

Source: Crunchbase

How Khan Academy Successfully Handled 2.5x Traffic in a Week

The faded beauty of abandoned cars across Europe and the US

“Visa saw an 18% rise in U.S. digital commerce spending during the month of April, excluding the travel category, as face-to-face transactions fell 45%”

From Boston to Saigon: A Coronavirus Quarantine Diary

Lessons From Slovakia—Where Leaders Wear Masks

Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant. I’d argue that this is a bridge too far into user privacy

Next time if you want to support local restaurants by ordering on delivery services like Grubhub or DoorDash, you may want to do a bit of research on how those services treat restaurant partners. Here is an example

Weekly readings

Weekly readings – 7th December 2019

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How busyness leads to bad decisions

Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

How I Get By: A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier. Reading about her week is heartbreaking. The sad thing is that it’s common in America. Hustling is great, but it shouldn’t be used to describe the economic difficulties a normal person has to face in arguably the richest country on Earth

Israeli scientists find way to treat pancreatic cancer in 14 days

A revelation on how employees suffered emotional toll while working at Away

Apple will start the wireless movement on smartphones in 2021?

Weekly readings

Weekly readings – 30th March 2019

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What even is AirBnb anymore? Questions that AirBnb will face ahead of its IPO and after.

2018 Theme Report. An informative study on the theatrical and home entertainment market environment in 2018.

How Kirkland Signature powers Costco’s success. A nice coverage on the signature private label of Costco.

2019 State of the Cloud. A framework to look at cloud businesses by folks at Bessemer Venture Partners.

The 2019 Drunk Shopping Census. An interesting piece on drunk folks’ purchase behavior. It must be tough for one to recall back the purchases made when drunk when one participates in the survey. The folks at The Hustle are good with words and sometimes have pretty good content. Give them a follow if you want daily email with overview of what happens in business and tech.

AirPods. I totally agree with the author of this post. AirPods are truly a massive success. Since I bought them last May, I have used them at least 6-7 hours a day every day. Sometimes, I don’t even feel that they are in my ears. Convenience goes up significantly. The sound may be not as good as power users of wireless headphones would want, but it is good enough for average users like myself. The design is just right. You can exercise without worrying about losing them. (Follow Horace Deliu if you are a fan of micro-mobility and Apple)

The State of Online Travel Agencies – 2019. A good overview of Online Travel Agencies’ performance last year.

How Spotify & Discover Weekly Earns Me $400 / Month. A specific and personal example of how Spotify helps obscure artists get paid for their work. This is why I love Spotify.