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...