Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.  | The New York Times | | Sometimes it's worth stepping back to look at the full picture. He has pressured a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 American presidential election. He urged a foreign country to intervene in the 2016 presidential election. He divulged classified information to foreign officials. | | | |  | Fortune Magazine | | Apple, Disney, and others are challenging its dominance like never before. Here's the team behind the tech giant's big bet on original content. | | | |  | Reaction Wheel | | Value is created through innovation, but how much of that value accrues to the innovator depends partly on how quickly their competitors imitate the innovation. Innovators must deter competition to get some of the value they created. These ways of deterring competition are called, in various contexts, barriers to entry, sustainable competitive advantages, or, colloquially, moats. | | | |  | Deadspin | | In a garden-variety suburb outside Albany--a recent July morning, but it could have been any morning--Patrick Battuello woke up at five, brewed a cup of coffee, and then sat at his computer to review the previous day's horse races. He's done this every day for the last six years. | | | |  | The Tim Ferriss Show | | Tristan Harris was named by "Rolling Stone" as one of the "25 People Shaping the World." He was featured in "Fortune's" 2018 "40 under 40" list for his work on reforming technology, and the "Atlantic" has called him the "closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience." | | | |  | Longreads | | Government jobs helped thousands of Black families move into the middle class. Now, increasing calls for government privatization are pushing them back out. | | | |  | Medium | | I miss listening stations at record shops. I miss having 3 opening bands and showing up early to see the bill. Most of all, I miss human recommendations. | | | |  | The Intercept | | Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil's army are reviving an old dream of the dictatorship to bring industry, mining, and settlers to the Amazon. | | | |  | LightShed Partners | | Fostering creativity is one of the most important aspects of building a successful entertainment company. Whenever we think about fostering a creative culture, we think of the following wisdom from former HBO CEO Richard Plepler: "Create an environment where the painters want to paint." | | | |  | The New Yorker | | Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists. | | | |  | Fast Company | | Dena vonWerssowetz is the queen of cheese. | | | |  | Forbes | | Live Nation is one of the world's leading live entertainment companies, hosting 30,000 events in 40 countries a year, selling over 500M tickets annually. On average, every 32 minutes there is a Live Nation event starting somewhere in the world. It's one of the most well-orchestrated global operations in live entertainment, and their financials reflect it. | | | |  | TechRadar | | From headless cat cushions to tiny lunar landers. | | | |  | VICE | | For five years, Google has funded Project Zero, a team of hackers with the sole mission of finding bugs in whatever software they wanted to research, be it Google's or somebody else's. Are they making the internet safer? | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Across audio, video and other entertainment formats, there is a growing buzz around really short pieces of content on the one hand (TikTok) and really long pieces of content on the other (extended podcast interviews or Netflix docu-series). The purgatory in the middle has become more difficult to frame as a source of future growth or innovation. | | | |  | Gizmodo | | At this very moment, behind a high school storage shed or under the grim fluorescents of a strip-mall Wendy's, a too-high teen is convinced they're going to die. Eventually that teen will calm down, and probably thank their friend for refusing to call an ambulance when they'd begged them to. | | | |  | Time Magazine | | A scientist who helped saved the ozone layer in the 1980s weighs inn on why it's been harder for science to lead to action on climate change. | | | |  | Peter Attia | | In this episode, Katherine Eban, investigative journalist and author of "Bottle of Lies," illuminates the prevalence of fraud in generic drug manufacturing which brings into question the idea that generics are identical to brand-name drug as we are lead to believe. | | | |  | Polygon | | Facebook's Jason Rubin and Mike Verdu talk "Vader Immortal," "Respawn," and the future. | | | |  | GQ | | The new season of NBC's award-winning news show premieres this Friday (Sep. 27). | | | |  | The Atlantic | | Coverage of the president's pressure on Ukraine suggests the media learned nothing from 2016. | | | |  | The Washington Post | | September 21 For Bob Schwartz, one of the hardest things about his unnamed illness is sleeping in snatches. When Schwartz, who battles insomnia, does manage to fall asleep, he wakes up every 90 minutes to urinate copiously. Most nights he sleeps a total of four hours. | | | | |  | | YouTube | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Copyright 2019, The REDEF Group | | |
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