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Dan Frommer's City Notes

Dan Frommer on entering the startup world from the other side — as an entrepreneur:

I quickly figured out that I wanted to do something in mobile — it’s the future of media and computing, and a massive market, as I’d reported for years at BI and Forbes — and that I wanted to build real, honest things and sell them to people, not just “collect eyeballs.” Meanwhile, I had a broader life goal of getting off my ass more often and not sitting in front of the computer all day. I wanted to spend more time seeing the world, talking to people, thinking, and creating — not just starting at pixels.

City Notes looks simple, straightforward, and nice.

Anthony Bourdain: FIGHTING MAD

anthonybourdain:

All of us on the show would have preferred to go out on a high note—and we tried to do that as best we could, turning in a strong , final season that we are very proud of. We wanted to go leaving a lot of great shows—and nothing but good memories and good will behind.

But things just didn’t turn out that way.

Things take a turn for the ugly as Anthony Bourdain nears his exit from the Travel Channel. Essentially, it sounds like the company is trying to exploit him to make a quick buck on his way out the door. Shameful.

Sent From My iPad

A first for me: I’m taking a trip without a computer. Well, I should say without a PC/Mac. I only have my iPhone and iPad. In fact, I’m typing this on my iPad.

It’s just one night, but a couple years ago, I never thought I would have gone anywhere without a computer. I’ve taken trips where I haven’t *used* the computer, but I always had it with me. Just in case. Not this time.

If this works fine — which of course it will — my next step is to leave my computer at home on a 4-day trip next week. Then maybe a week-long one. Baby steps.

laughingsquid: Successors to Concorde Supersonic Jet Will Be Nearly Twice As Fast This would immediately take plane travel from “Bullitt” to something a lot closer to what we should have in the 21st century. But I am curious as to how this would work for passengers. One complaint about the Concorde (which I sadly never had the chance to ride on before it was retired in 2003) was that it was pretty uncomfortable to be on.  That said, if it can cut a 20 hour trip to 4 hours (London -> Sydney), I think I’d take it. What would San Francisco to New York be? An hour? Would the thing even be able to get to top speed in that time? Also note: this is meant for business jets first (in 2020). It wouldn’t come to commercial airlines until sometime closer to 2030 (if at all). Still, this would absolutely change the state of travel. High-res

laughingsquid:

Successors to Concorde Supersonic Jet Will Be Nearly Twice As Fast

This would immediately take plane travel from “Bullitt” to something a lot closer to what we should have in the 21st century.

But I am curious as to how this would work for passengers. One complaint about the Concorde (which I sadly never had the chance to ride on before it was retired in 2003) was that it was pretty uncomfortable to be on. 

That said, if it can cut a 20 hour trip to 4 hours (London -> Sydney), I think I’d take it. What would San Francisco to New York be? An hour? Would the thing even be able to get to top speed in that time?

Also note: this is meant for business jets first (in 2020). It wouldn’t come to commercial airlines until sometime closer to 2030 (if at all). Still, this would absolutely change the state of travel.