In other words, today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well be the GM, Ford, and Chrysler of the 21st century. The beginning era of technology, where new challengers were started every year, has come to an end

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About 40% of American heterosexual couples meet online. This is crazy data.

Travis Kalanick is selling all his Uber shares www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…

Maybe the strategy was not Lindy? eu.usatoday.com/story/spo…

Practical tips for defusing tension at the holiday dinner table

“While rushing the Bill Clinton DVD to market, we inadvertently shipped out 100 copies of true hard-core nasty-style pornography to our customers. When we asked people to send their porn discs back so that we could send them the proper thing . . . . no one did.” — www.quora.com/What-are-…

Apple is overhauling how they test and debug iOS. I am thankful. iOS 13 was dire — Apple iOS 14: Features, Changes, Testing After iOS 13 Bugs

Antibiotics resistance, Estonia, the next dot com bubble, metro logos, and Jamaican sprinters are on the menu for Sundry’s new issue. It’s a weekly reading list for curious minds distilled from 70+ eclectic sources. Subscribe here: sundry.ulysse.xyz/subscribe  

Is there any simple way to import Mailchimp campaigns onto Micro.blog? All help appreciated!

I will be pushing a new edition of Sundry, my weekly newsletter, tomorrow. Subscribe if you want to! Curated links from a distillation of 70+ sources. Topics include science, art, tech, psychology, etc. Sundry

A collection of anime UI — animeuserinterface.tumblr.com

In-depth analysis of Neon Genesis Evangelion font usage — fontsinuse.com

Advice wanted for note-taking tools. Looking for something that satisfies the following criteria: cross-platform (iOS/Mac), ownership (files accessible from Finder, syncable through Dropbox, unlike Simplenote), native formatting (iA Writer is no good). Any thoughts? Thanks!

In conclusion, a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.

Isn’t it interesting that we can’t say for sure whether coffee is good or bad for the heart? Been reading all kinds of contradictory studies and claim all morning.

Butternut squash sweets. With the taste of family tradition and centennial know-how. Tripoli's souk, Lebanon

Mosaïque du Bon Pasteur, 5-6 B.C, representing the fauna of the Levant, National Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

One of the issues with wearing an Apple Watch during sleep is that many users choose to charge their Apple Watch at night. Apple thought about this and developed a feature that will remind users to charge their Watch beforehand so they can get through the night

Will that be enough though?

Apple Watch sleep tracking revealed: sleep quality, battery, more