10 Weekend Reads - Wall Street Executives, PayPal Mafia, The Revolution, 70 songs to celebrate Eric Clapton’s 70th birthday, and more
• iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch (Wired)
• Renegades of Junk: The Rise and Fall of the Drexel Empire (Bloomberg)
• Wall Street Executives from the Financial Crisis of 2008: Where Are They Now? (Vanity Fair)
• The PayPal Mafia: An inside look at the hyperintelligent,
superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service
and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. (Fortune)
• The Great Cocaine Treasure Hunt: If you knew where a million dollars’
worth of blow was buried, would you go dig it up? Rodney Hyden would. We
pick up the story at this critical juncture (GQ)
• The Revolution Will Probably Wear Mom Jeans (The Baffler)
• Inside the Weird, Noble World of Autograph Collectors (Vice)
• Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced armies of low-paid workers (Fusion)
• Counter-Swarm: A Guide to Defeating Robotic Swarms (War On The Rocks)
• Six seconds that shaped 1,500 songs (BBC) see also 70 songs to celebrate Eric Clapton’s 70th birthday (Mashable)
What are you reading?
