Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 26

Back after a week away, and excited about the spring / early summer feeling in the air.

Hope you had a great (hopefully) long weekend, and have a great week.

This Week's Links A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.* "Throughout, he has taught a sustained master class in conversational redirection and opacity." - Jack Dorsey’s TED Interview and the End of an Era (Anna Wiener for The New Yorker) * "I also hope you are loved and that you love others, and that you have a crew to smuggle Kettle Chips and fresh bagels and bibimbap into the hospital as needed, because all that love and all those foodstuffs saved my life." - The Night The Lights Went Out (Drew Magary for Deadspin) * "The hunger some entrepreneurs have for unnecessary disruption can lead to widely mocked results, from complicated juicing machines that can be replicated by hand to Rogaine rebrands." - At UNTUCKit, Clothes Make the Man, and the Man Needs Help (Hazel Cills for Jezebel) * "This is why we love podcasts: they are the internet for our ears. Now we can be on the internet all the time." - Friends of the Pod (The Editors for N+1)