Cubicles (even the virtual ones) are not conductive to facilitating collaboration and inducing spontaneous exchange of ideas in an enterprise setting. We will all be taking 10 hours of calls in noisy virtual openspace!
Congrats to Spenser, Curtis, and the whole team. From a YC pivot to a Nasdaq-listed company, bravo! Couldn't have happened to a more genuinely awesome group.
I've been a subscriber to Snigdha's Inkmango newsletter (https://www.inkmango.com) for many months — I look forward to it every Sunday. Even though I generally try to stay up on South Asian news, her newsletter always contains fascinating links/stories that I really enjoy — and wouldn't have seen otherwise. She's a fantastic curator and I'm excited to see she's launching original content.
I worked briefly in Indian media, at a magazine based in Delhi, and one takeaway was that there's unfortunately a paucity of well-reported, hard-hitting, speaking-truth-to-power journalism in India and South Asia more broadly. The mainstream papers and TV channels just don't do it. It's easy for Americans and Europeans to take the presence of publications like the New York Times for granted, because that level of journalistic quality and resource doesn't exist in much of South Asia. It's especially unfortunate because many of the countries are on a march towards nationalism (India being the most obvious example). Great journalism is so crucial in such a vibrant, important, rapidly-changing region of the world. Hopefully The Juggernaut and projects like it can help raise global awareness about the injustices happening in South Asia — I wish them good luck and I'll be reading!
I think this article sets up a straw man argument that is a little disingenuous. It seems that most of the politicians (save for a couple extremists) and everyday people who support more emphasis on STEM teaching aren't arguing it should be at the expense of the liberal arts education Americans are getting now. Sure, the focus on STEM is partially about "making America more competitive" as a whole, but I think it's even more about enabling everyday people to get reliable+productive jobs and career skills that will be important in the modern workforce for decades to come. That can only be a good thing.
Having met some of the students that went through Make School's summer session, I was very impressed. They seemed to be more widely-experienced and driven than your average student at a top-tier school. Excited to see that Make School is turning this into a full two-year program.
I'm hopeful that someday we'll be able to get measured once professionally, and then input a code/set of measurements to order perfectly-fitting clothes, glasses, shoes, etc online through different providers. That would be so cool. Seems like this is a step towards that.
Unless you're planning to create a synthetic copy of your body to wear the clothes you got made, "measured once" doesn't really work. We kind of change shape over time :)
This is pretty different than what they were asking for though. I, at least, wouldn't mind finding a professional/ scanner to measure me. It would be nice, though, to have that information that multiple manufacturers work off of. That way I can just send them my WhateverCompanyName measurements to the store and they would have a size adjusting model that uses those measurements that could be worked with to create my item.
Yes! We are working hard on perfect + consistent measurements. Here is a quick overview:http://imgur.com/ndgq2Ci
And this feature will be released in API really soon. Stay tuned!
Less with hardware-specific expertise, more with crowdfunding, pre-sales, and bringing a product to market. Many highly-successful new hardware project launches have been powered by Tilt over the past year, to name a few: Navdy, Lytro Illum, Whistle GPS, and Eero (yesterday).
Think it's clear who Meta wants to buy this! It will be great if companies buy their employees a $1500 headset that they use to play Beat Saber.