I really enjoyed the article about Google’s internal culture, but the key article this week is a short blog from PIMCO on the possibility of negative interest rates in the U.S.
- How Government Prolonged the Lobotomy. AIER. Super creepy.
- What is Amazon? Zack Canter. HT Tyler Cowen.
- Study: many of the “oldest” people in the world may not be as old as we think. Vox. I feel like this type of thing is going to pop up more and more as people do Big Data things.
- Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech. Wired.
- How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm. Route Fifty.
- GitHub Stars Won’t Pay Your Rent. Medium.
- Interest Rates: Naturally Negative? PIMCO. The world is not prepared for a negative dollar interest rate.