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New Links. Accumulated from May to November (no particular order)

  1. Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound - Guardian
  2. 25+ Free Kindle Books Resources - ProFounder
  3. The Life You Can Save
  4. Moral Machine - M.I.T.
  5. Why read Aristotle today? - Aeon
  6. Compression enters the high-performance era - IBC
  7. How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) - Thread by @naval
  8. Did Uber steal Google’s IP - New Yorker
  9. The Self-Defeating Prophecy - Unintended Consequences
  10. The banana is dying - Wired
  11. How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It - ACM
  12. This Is How Amazon Loses - NewCo
  13. How I learned to love Bonsai - Walrus
  14. Former head of HR at Google reveals his new startup - Quartz
  15. 5 ways Google Pixel 3 camera pushes the boundaries of computational photography - DPReview
  16. The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare - Steve Blank
  17. Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road - Bloomberg
  18. Eliud Kipchoge Is the Greatest Marathoner, Ever - NYTimes
  19. A New World Marathon Record Almost Defies Description - Atlantic
  20. Living The Stream - Fortnite - ESPN
  21. Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - HuffPo
  22. Bitmain: IPO and Technical Challenges - Lions Den
  23. Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power - NYT
  24. An alternative history of silicon valley disruption - Wired
  25. You too can build your own chip - for only $30mn - Digits to Dollars
  26. A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada - NYT
  27. Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem - Quanta
  28. How to self-publish a book - Data Science
  29. Outsourcing: After the Miracle - California Sunday
  30. What’s Next for Justify? - NYT
  31. The Psychology of Money - Collaborative Fund
  32. The next trend in travel is … Don’t - Bright
  33. Bitcoin is a Cult - Adam Caudill
  34. Masters of Love - Atlantic
  35. Corruption Gutted South Africa’s Tax Agency. Now the Nation Is Paying the Price. - NYT
  36. China: The Bro Code - China Life, 2015
  37. These are the top iPhone apps of all time - Techcrunch
  38. The Billionaire Yogi Behind Modi’s Rise - NYT Profile
  39. Why India needs women to work - Missing 235mn - Economist Econmist 2
  40. India shows how hard it is to move beyond fossil fuels - Econmist
  41. Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less - Paris Review
  42. How AI changed organ donation in the US - Quartz
  43. No helmets, no problem: how the Dutch created a casual biking culture - Vox
  44. Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship M.I.T.
  45. Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful - Economist
  46. Plastic recycling is a problem consumers can’t solve - Bloomberg
  47. A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change’ - Guardian
  48. Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence - U.N.
  49. Google Design Chief Ivy Ross’ Profile - Wired
  50. The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s Profile - NYT

Best, Umang