Not too familiar with how Pocket works but this one is more focused on books rather than articles / text. It'll be able to recognize books based on highlighted text, then save the author and cover and back blurb to your list.
That's fair! Just wanted a faster way for myself as I'm quite lazy. The hope is that there will be more useful features to add that make it a better than Amazon shopping lists when it comes to books.
After getting tired of manually making note of all the books I find online that seem interesting (from Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc.) I made a chrome extension to help me keep track of them + the website where they come from. Thought this would be of value to some other readers out here. Would love some feedback!
Started my self-taught programming journey about two weeks ago and thought this would be a fun/manageable/somewhat useful project. Appends years found in Wikipedia entries with how old the subject was at the time. Would love to hear what y'all think!
Understandable given where the company is. The unit economics don't work without autonomy. Maybe it works in its original rendition as an on-demand black cab service, but not as a general-purpose transportation provider.
I understand the controversy behind Kalanick. I really do think that if he were still at the helm, Uber would be in a different (read: better) position than it's at currently. It's surprising how common these founder narratives tend to be. The meteoric rise to stardom, the fall, the schadenfreude, then in some cases a rise again.
As far as Kalanick goes, I suspect he's currently underrated. I'm cautiously optimistic that his new venture, Cloud Kitchens, will be a success.
One of the most convincing reasons I've heard for why certain social media sites succeed and fail have to do with how well they manage the balances between utility and status game (i.e. come for the tools, stay for the network). You tweet because you want likes/retweets. You post because you want likes/comments.
Even if you can see your own likes, removing visibility on others changes the nature of this dynamic. Half the reward for "scoring" a bunch of likes/upvotes/karma is that others see that you have scored a lot. What constitutes a "successful" post is all relative too. Effectively, Instagram is betting on the "utility" of sharing photos, which I'm not sure is all that strong. I've deleted my Instagram a while ago, but while I was using, it was clear that it was a highly comparative medium by nature.
Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson: I assume a HN classic. Good read nonetheless. Crazy imaginative. Prior experience with Stephenson is limited to Snowcrash, which I found to be quite good as well.
Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson: Biographies are immensely underrated. A good biography has had the effect of raising my own aspirations by orders of magnitude. Not sure what it is exactly about them. Being reminded that accomplished figures were humans first and foremost is always good. Either way, struck by the practicality of the man -- something I'm looking to emulate in my own life.