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On July 28, 1993, a group of about twenty people met at the O’Reilly offices in Cambridge to talk about the web. This special event was called the World-Wide Web Wizards Workshop (WWWW) In attendance were a group of the web’s earliest pioneers, including its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, one of its fiercest advocates, Dale Dougherty, and some of the first browser makers, Marc Andreessen and Lou Montulli.
When the Wizards of the Web Met - The History of the Web
thehistoryoftheweb.com
Rather than search for the perfect media source, right at the intersection of accuracy and neutrality, assume that every company, every journalist, every podcaster, every talking head is flawed—because they are, because they’re all human—and diversify your media portfolio. Try to get a sprinkling from across the spectrum. Think of the various voices as the biased lawyers in the courtroom of your mind. Watching their ideas clash will help you, the juror, get closer to the truth.
What's Our Problem?
Tim Urban
Welch used GE Capital to manage earnings. Whenever the company was short revenue or profit or vice versa, Welch could instruct GE Capital to buy or sell assets. The result was GE’s storied ability to always hit its forecasts—and why the stock was so highly valued. It wasn’t that the businesses were managed so well that the numbers were predictable; it was that it had an unregulated bank around to make up the difference whenever it wanted.
How Technology Giants Die
Evan Armstrong
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