I Was Just Frosted
I’VE BEEN BLOGGING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS: Study of Over 1 Million People Finds Intriguing Link Between Iron Levels And Lifespan.“Put simply, having too much iron in the blood appeared to be linked to an increased risk of dying earlier.”
This is also the thesis of P.D. Mangan’s book, Dumping Iron, which I found persuasive.
Jeff Bezos is the most important business leader of our time, and if you want to know how he got that way, you can find it in the very first letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Back then Amazon.com had annual revenue of $148 million—compared with $280 billion today. But his message was crisp and clear: Focus on the long term; obsess over customers; make bold not timid choices; set a high bar in hiring; and you will create “an enduring franchise.”
Ever since, Bezos—modeling Warren Buffett—has laid out his business thoughts each year in clear terms in his annual letter to shareholders. Until now, no one has thought to pull those letters together into a book. That may be partly because of Bezos’s fraught relationship with much of the book publishing industry.
But today, PublicAffairs and Harvard Business Review Press are announcing plans to publish Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, which brings together 23 years of annual letters, notable interviews, writings, and speeches, and a 10,000-word introduction penned by Walter Isaacson—biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci. Isaacson puts Bezos “in the same league as my other subjects.” The book provides a compelling window into Bezos the man and Bezos the business phenom.
Jeff Bezos - Racing Against Cold River - That Took 23 Years to write too
The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.
Internet Archive – “LibriVox – founded in 2005 – is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet. If you are not in the USA, please check your country’s copyright law before downloading.”
“The Internet Archive is home to thousands of recordings from Librivox—an organization of volunteers that turns public domain texts into free audiobooks. Take a long drive and listen to classic novels such as Treasure Island, Little Women, or Frankenstein. Go on a hike while enjoying books about nature like Walden or The Call of the Wild. Or have a picnic while listening to poetry from the world’s greatest writers.”
Google Map revamps its bike routes for easy riding - CNET – “To help people get around this summer in an eco-friendly — and healthy — way, Google Maps has added new features to its offerings for cyclists. Users can now access the most up-to-date bike routes generated by machine learning algorithms, as well as data from government authorities and community contributions. In addition, Google Maps now offers better end-to-end directions that include docked bikeshare program information. The docked bikeshare information will be available in 10 cities worldwide, including Chicago, New York and Washington DC in the US. Users can also access the new bikeshare information in London, Mexico City, Montreal, Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Taipei and New Taipei City…”
