For reasons we know, and many we don’t, it’s going to be awfully hard to add an intuitive, interactive highlight layer to every page published online. On every device. With a UX so tight it’s 10× better than status quo copy-and-paste.
No Investor Ever Got Fired for Passing on a Reading Startup — Highlight to Share — Medium
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It is, maybe, a vestige of the old myth that anyone ordained to cut into healthy flesh is thereby made a minor god. It’s the belief that there are no differences in skill, and that even if there were differences, surgery is so complicated and multifaceted, and so much determined by the patient you happen to be operating on, that no one would ever be able to tell.
Should Surgeons Keep Score? — Backchannel — Medium
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spent nine years at The New Republic, from 1998 to 2007, before I joined The New Yorker. Franklin Foer is a close friend, and I know almost every individual involved in this story, including Hughes, who last year made me an offer to return to T.N.R. This account is based on internal e-mails, recordings of meetings, contemporaneous notes, and conversations with about two dozen people, most of whom would not speak for attribution. On Sunday night, I interviewed Hughes for forty minutes.
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic - The New Yorker
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