David Lidsky's Blog, page 2907
August 25, 2015
Silicon Valley And Burners Finally Square Off In "Burning Man: The Musical"
"Yo, I heard it's a sh*tshow: Skrillex and Diplo—white privileged and only the rich go…"
Once regarded as a sandpit for hedonistic revelry for artists, hippies, and vision-seekers, Burning Man, for better or worse, has been co-opted by the Silicon Valley set. The tension between the self-proclaimed true Burners and the brogrammers just looking to network is as thick as the dust (and musk) on the playa—and it's a tension that can only be resolved through song and dance.
Slack Just Made It Easier To Unify Your Online Work Life
Soon you'll start seeing an "Add to Slack" button on websites and apps. This is a good thing for your fractured digital work life.
Slack wants to weave itself into the rest of your digital work tools. That's because as useful and beloved as the enterprise chat service is, it's not the end-all, be-all productivity app. Nor does it want to be. Today, integrating Slack into your other favorite digital productivity tools just got way easier.
Starbucks Killed The Salon, And CEO Howard Schultz Can't Bring It Back
Schultz has urged employees to be "sensitive" to anxious customers in light of the stock market decline. Sound familiar?
After the stock market took a nosedive Monday morning, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sent his employees an email asking them to be "sensitive" to customers who might be concerned about their finances.
Does A Huge Pay Gap Between CEO And Staff Affect Employee Satisfaction?
According to Glassdoor, the average CEO of a public company earns 204 times the median worker's salary. Does it matter to staff?
We all know executives at big companies are handsomely compensated for their work. Although, just how much more they make than their average employees has long been a hot-button issue. This new economic research should only serve to fuel that debate.
Here's What The Earth's Mammal Population Might Look Like If Humans Never Existed
Things have changed.
When you want to go on a safari, you go to sub-Saharan Africa, the only place in the world outside of a zoo where you can see rhinos, elephants, hippos, and leopards all at once. According to a new study, this isn't because Africa has the optimal climate and environment for these large mammals, but rather because it's one of the only areas where human activities have not yet wiped out the majority of animals.
A Design To Stop Louisiana From Drowning By Adding Faucets To The Mississippi
Can we restore the natural sediment flows of the Mississippi? Here's a proposal that could do a much better job.
Louisiana is drowning: Over the last eight decades, more than 2,000 square miles of land have disappeared underwater. When engineers sealed off the Mississippi River with levees to prevent flooding in the 1930s, they also cut off the river's natural process of building land.
Uber Is The New Bus
The company is testing a new feature that creates perpetual routes in San Francisco.
Uber began testing a new feature this week in San Francisco that works like a bus route.
Enter The Matrix! This iPad App Lets You "See" Wi-Fi Signals
A new exhibition by Richard Vijgen reveals the invisible architecture of radio waves, all around us.
The invisible world around us pulses with radio waves, an electromagnetic tide that washes over everything. If you could see it, everything around us would ripple with information, like dropping a tab of acid after watching The Matrix.
MIT's New 3-D Printer Uses Molten Glass As A Medium
Watch a glassblowing robot make beautiful and precise glassware in this new video from MIT Media Lab.
The researchers at MIT's Mediated Matter have invented a 3-D printer—G3DP—that produces optically transparent glass with the push of a button.
Coursera Pivots To Focus On Job Training
Learning for the sake of learning sounds nice but doesn't pay.
Back in 2012, we welcomed the dawn of the massive open online course (MOOC) and its promise to democratize learning with open arms.
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