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.

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)