Stan Lee Is Dead at 95; Superhero of Marvel Comics | The New York Times
It's nice that people look forward to your next cameo, but Stan Lee's greatest achievement is that he made his heroes and villains flawed, imperfect and all too human. Basically he created a world that any of us could step into and not feel out of place. (November 12, 2018)

World Chess Championship 2018 Is Made for the Internet | Bloomberg
Yes, I learned to play chess but these days I wish I had learned Go at the same time. There's little point in it, starting the game after 50. And just like Go, chess is something for a minority of enthusiasts. Killer-app? Doubt it. (November 13, 2018)

Dizzying Heights: Vertical Tourism in China | The Atlantic
Beautiful, breathtaking and also a little crazy, I love it. (November 15, 2018)

Companies fed up with crappy Wi-Fi are deploying 5G instead | MIT Technology Review
A 5G network can slash data transmission delays from 30 ms to less than one. And 5G can treat different types of data or equipment differently eg favoring mission-critical devices so that they keep operating even if the rest of the network is disrupted. (November 28, 2018)

An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands | Recode
Amazon is ordering companies to sell to it, rather than through it, customer experience it says. That means companies sell wholesale and loose pricing power and how to promote. Small companies have little choice but some of the bigger ones are leaving. (November 29, 2018)

Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? | The New York Times
After Satya Nadella became chief executive in 2014, Microsoft has fully embraced cloud computing, abandoned an errant foray into smartphones and returned to its roots as mainly a supplier of technology to business customers, tripling it's stockprice. (November 29, 2018)

The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy | Monday Note
(November 18, 2019)