The economic effects of automation aren’t what you think they are – Single Lunch:
“A job is made from of a bundle of tasks. For example, O*NET defines the job of post-secondary architecture teacher as including 21 tasks like advising students, preparing course materials and conducting original research.”
*Lots of interesting content.
Where People Leaving New York, California and Illinois Are Going – Bloomberg:
“New York, California and Illinois have been hemorrhaging residents. Almost 3.2 million more people left those states for elsewhere in the U.S. than arrived from other states, from 2010 through 2019, according to population estimates released last week by the Census Bureau. Nine other states saw net out-migration of more than 100,000 people over that period, but none really came close to the big three.”
PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon’s ‘bullying with a smile’ tactics:
“… executives from Sonos, Basecamp, and Tile, who all took turns airing a list of grievances against major tech players such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. They all recounted, in manners specific to their respective companies, how the major tech players have used their market dominance to squeeze smaller competitors in allegedly anticompetitive ways. “
*Are some of today’s big tech firms abusing their suppliers?
Bose is closing all of its retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia – The Verge:
“Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. The company announced the decision earlier today and pointed to the fact that its headphones, speakers, and other products ‘are increasingly purchased through e-commerce’ as the reasoning. Hundreds of employees will be laid off as a result. “
Finding Time to Invest in Yourself:
“Naval: Judgment takes experience. It takes a lot of time to build up. You have to put yourself in positions where you can exercise judgment. That’ll come from taking on accountability.
Leverage is something that society gives you after you’ve demonstrated judgment. You can get it faster by learning high-leverage skills like coding or working with the media. These are permissionless leverage. This is why I encourage people to learn to code or produce media, even if it’s just nights and weekends. “
*Interesting throughout
UZH – World Premiere in Zurich: Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body:
“Until now, livers could be stored safely outside the body for only a few hours. With the novel perfusion technology, livers – and even injured livers – can now be kept alive outside of the body for an entire week. This is a major breakthrough in transplantation medicine, which may increase the number of available organs for transplantation and save many lives of patients suffering from severe liver disease or a variety of cancers”
*Gamechanger?
Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust – Bloomberg:
“Tesla Inc. shares rose above $500 for the first time on Monday as Wall Street analysts played catch-up with the electric-vehicle maker’s share price, which has doubled from October.”
Education and Men without Work | National Affairs:
“According to the latest monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘work rates’ for American men in October 2019 stood very close to their 1939 levels, as reported in the 1940 U.S. Census. Despite some improvement since the end of the Great Recession, Great Depression-style work rates are still characteristic today for the American male, both for those of ‘prime working age’ (defined as ages 25 to 54) and for the broader 20 to 64 group.”
*Interesting and worthwhile read.
Opinion | The Gig Economy Is Coming for Your Job – The New York Times:
“… he was an expert in delivering carefully assembled trays of food and drink to hungry guests. But the number of orders had sharply decreased. What was once 50 glasses of orange juice every morning had dwindled to 10, and Mr. Martín’s tip income fell accordingly. At lunchtime, he seemed to make more deliveries of plates and silverware than actual food.”
How a High Schooler Scooped Everyone on the Iowa Poll:
“How does Mr. Rawal do it? He correctly figures out the URL — the uniform resource locator, or full web address — that a graphic depicting the poll’s results appears at before their official release.
‘URL manipulation is what I do,’ he said, ‘and I’ve been able to get really good at it because, with websites like CNN and Fox, all the file names follow a pattern.’”
*This is going to become harder if the people in charge want to keep information secret until they reveal it themselves.
D.L. Damore 