# It's about that time

Hello friends!\
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I just spent the weekend in Puerto Rico and learned that PR doesn't
observe daylight savings time. Then I learned Hawaii, Arizona, also do
not observe. But the Navajo nation (mainly [located
in Arizona](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation)) does. So if you
have a Navajo friend, they'll be an hour ahead of you all winter. Weird.
Also can we talk about Indiana's [frustrating history with time
zones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana)? There [was a West
Wing episode about this
once](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc). Also also: Jim from
the Newsroom is in that clip.\
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**In personal news: I have an essay in the latest 99U book *Make Your
Mark***. The book is a no-bullshit guide for those of us who like making
stuff more than being a manager. And it's not just your average
collection of paper, the book is designed in-house at Behance by our
crack team of world-class designers. It's truly a beautiful object. So
far so good, the book debuted at number 96 on Amazon. [Buy your copy
here for \$11](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1477801235).\
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**Yeah, I'm gonna talk about Uber, too.** First Uber violated the
privacy of its users, [displaying notable user's cab rides as a party
trick](http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view-uber-allegedly-stalked-users-for-party-goers-viewing-pleasure/).
Then at a maybe-sorta "off the record" dinner, an Uber executive
declared his intentions to launch an "offensive" by using Uber data of
media members [who don't play nice with
Uber](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists). I'll
save you the outrage. You know it's messed up. I know it's messed up.
Mainly, I want to praise Ben Smith of Buzzfeed for reporting this (there
were other journalists in the room as well). From Mitt Romney's 47% to
Donald Sterling we should know that nothing is off the record anymore.
The Uber exec should have known he had no privacy when discussing his
attempts to violate the privacy of journalists around journalists. And
it's that brazen arrogance with our data which should bother us most.\
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**Follow up questions**: But now, what happens to Uber? And will these
violations of privacy ever be so egregious that people stop using the
product? And does anyone outside of the media-tech-sphere really care?
And what if there were audio or video of this dinner?\
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***What would it look like if you ran an NBA team?** [Probably like the
Denver
Nuggets](http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11865367/how-denver-nuggets-became-nba-biggest-disappointment?src=mobile).
Choice quote: "*One rival team executive said the Nuggets called to
propose a trade that was obviously unkosher under league rules,
something that rarely, if ever, happens because no general manager wants
to betray ignorance of such a rudimentary part of the gig. Most have the
good sense to call the league to fact-check potential acquisitions."\
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**Quick: is the U.S. in a better spot than it was two decades ago?** For
most of us, the answer is yes. High school dropout rates, college
enrollment, drunken driving, traffic deaths, infant mortality, life
expectancy, and male-female wage equality [are all trending
positive](http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/24/opinion/johnson-progress-overlooked/index.html?c=weekend-homepage-t).
To quote Louis C.K.: [everything is amazing and no one is
happy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E)\
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***Why do working class whites hate Democrats?**
[Welfare](http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/11/can-we-talk-heres-why-white-working-class-hates-democrats). \
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**Did you know that in 2010** [Jay-Z only donated \$6,000 to his own
charity](http://ourlegaci.com/2013/11/20/harry-belafonte-was-right-about-jay-z/)?
\$raplyricelevatorjokebeyoncereference.\
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**The average American [makes \$20 an
hour](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-majority-of-americans-make-less-than-20-per-hour-2014-11-14).**
Fun trick: if you are salaried, take everything left of the comma and
halve it for your hourly rate. If you make \$60,000, that's about
\$30/hour. If you have two commas in your salary, good for you. Don't be
like Jay-Z.*\
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**XoJane and ReadWrite are for sale.** Why? Because when you have the
option of running a tech company or a content company, [tech wins every
time](http://digiday.com/publishers/say-media-retreat/). So what happens
when Vox Media, the content company that has its own fancy CMS named
Chorus, runs out of investor cash?\
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**Jonathan Ive says he wishes design students [learned how to actually
make physical
objects](http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/13/design-education-tragic-says-jonathan-ive-apple/)**.
Fun fact: at least three people have told me that they have spotted Ive
in SF riding with his chauffeur that takes him to work everyday.\
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**In 1974, Will Brown showed his raw, bracing pictures of Philadelphia
to the MoMA**. They told him to go pound sand. [They were
wrong](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/good-pictures-bad-timing/?_r=1). Typical
NY. \
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**Mom starts company and she's known as a "working mom."** Guy starts
company and.... he's just a guy.
[Why](http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3105-don-t-call-me-a-working-mom/)?\
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**"Despite all the greed and hatred of the past iterations, no version
of the dream had been so mechanical — so dehumanizing — as this dream of
productivity."** How the maniacal focus on productivity [harms us
all](https://medium.com/message/against-productivity-b19f56b67da6). \
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**Okay, time to blow your mind**. A bunch of scientists simulated a
universe which only contained 1,000 particles. They found that the
particles would inevitably clump together in a single ball and expand
again. Sound familiar? It's possible that our "Big Bang" [was only one
in a series](http://www.wired.com/2014/11/time-gravity). And that time
moves backwards and forwards from that point resulting in similar
events.\
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**"Lastly, I asked them to share a nude that they had sent to someone.**
And so many people did, without hesitation, or requiring anything in
exchange." Why everybody, yes, even you,
[sexts](https://medium.com/matter/everybody-sexts-4937de2bc1d7). (this
link is totally NSFW)\
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**People who switch jobs more often in their 20s** [make more
money](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/quit-your-job/382402/).
My most common career advice to friends usually relies on this stat.
When you're young, opportunity costs are low and the upside is high. If
you don't like your job, quit.\
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It may be winter, but you warm my heart.\
--Sean\