We take the Internet for granted. We take the commercial internet for granted. What we don't appreciate is how far we have come from where it all started. Today instead of sharing a long read, here is a long watch -- a video that captures the Internet's journey and how it got to today. Trust me; this is the coffee break you need. Watch...

We all are hooked to the saga of Ever Green, the supersized container ship that is stuck in the Suez Canal. It is causing havoc on global trade. Supply chains are grinding to a halt. But this isn’t the first time we have had Suez crisis. And neither is this the longest one, as this article from the AP News explains. Interesting tidbit ...

One of the most jaw-dropping articles you can read today is about how Bangladesh's prime minister, the army chief, and a couple of gangsters are all in cahoots. Political corruption, crime, and gangland are part of the inconvenient truth in South Asia. When reading this investigative report, I couldn't help but notice similarities betw...

Given how many people subscribe to the New Yorker magazine, it makes little sense to share an article from the magazine. However, I loved Jennifer Gonnerman's Behind the scenes at a five-star hotel so much that I can't help but recommend this to all of you. Beautifully written, deeply reported, and infinitely human-- the feature that c...

Sometimes, visuals are more powerful than words, like this short animation film, The Beauty. Swiss director Pascal Schelbli gives us a glimpse of ocean life and the impact of plastic. Oceans that are beautiful but increasingly filthy, thanks to our constant dumping of garbage and plastic. Schelbi has captured the "mysterious depth of t...

The EVs — electric vehicles are everywhere. More SPACs are touting their fantastic future where they sell millions of vehicles. Elon Musk is the wealthiest guy in the world. Everything is so lit, except no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room — rare earth metals and the pollution that comes with mining them. And nothing is ...

Today is a bit self-serving as I am sharing something I published this morning: a new conversation with Nitin Sawhney, a British musician whose music has been the soundtrack of my life. The interview comes on the eve of the release of his new album, Immigrants, which celebrates the role immigrants play in any society. The album is the ...

"Substack’s business is a scam," writes Annalee Newitz (formerly of io9) on (where else but) Substack. "They claim to offer writers a level playing field for making a living, and instead, they pay an elite, secret group of writers to be on the platform and make newsletter writing appear to be more lucrative than it is. They claim to be...

Maria Ressa, formerly of CNN, is a well-known media entrepreneur from the Philippines. Her news website Rappler is a major news source in the Philippines. It'sIt's investigative journalism, which is critical of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has earned her his ire, and they are gunning for her head. In a short but solid intervie...

As you might (or might not know), I have a particular predilection for mechanical watches. I have always been fascinated by watch faces and the design philosophies behind those dials. And that is why I was pretty thrilled to read this deep dive into iconic watch faces that found their way into the Apple Watch. Arun Venkatesan, co-found...

Did you know that during 2020, the growth of cloud and access to capital hit all-time highs? Average Cloud 100 company grew 80 percent YoY, and $186 billion was invested in private cloud companies in 2020 alone. And we are only just getting started if you believe the State of the Cloud 2021 report published by Bessemer Venture Partners...

In time, what was a disruptive technology becomes a part of our life that we don't even notice. One hundred billion units later, cassette tape is one of those technologies. It kicked off the ability to personalize the curation of music. You can draw a straight line between those tapes and Spotify playlists. Lou Ottens, the engineer who...

Tim O’Reilly, a long-time observer this week, published an essay, The End of Silicon Valley As We Know It. If you can overlook the clickbait title, perhaps one of the most important things you can read is to understand our present and think about our future with a mix of trepidation and excitement.

We might be on the brink of the future where we all will be riding in autonomous vehicles and zooming in self-driving cars. It is easy to focus on what to come and forget that 16 years ago, autonomous driving was a dream and a lot of chaos. Alex Davies has written Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car, a book chronicling it all...

Now that Jason and DHH have offered an easy way to create and post what’s on my mind, I will take this opportunity and turn this into a daily version of my old 7 Things To Read email newsletter. As you might remember, those links were long reads about everything from music to mayhem to magic. Readers loved the format, so I am not going...