Tuesday’s Interests: Business, Tech, Apps and Alabama Football

Tuesday’s interests are all about Business & Technology.  Today we revisit boy genius Mark Zuckerberg, open, closed, and privacy, Dropbox, dating apps, and Alabama football.

QUOTE

• “Mark Zuckerberg is an adult person, and we still call him “boy genius” and we’re still surprised that he wore a suit and we still wonder if it’s going to be hard for him to testify before Congress. I find that odd, given that he’s one of the richest and most powerful people on earth.” — Kara Swisher

READ

• Why we should stop treating Silicon Valley’s male CEOs like children : They’re grown-ass men (Sean Illing, Vox)
• Open, Closed, and Privacy (Stratechery)
• Everyone Is Asking the Wrong Questions About Dropbox. Here’s What They Should Be Asking Instead (Sami Inkinen, Inc.)
• An Inside Look at Your Favorite Dating Sites: What’s happening behind the scenes at the sites and apps you know and love and hate, along with a couple that may not be on your radar (or phone) (Valeriya Safronova, New York Times)
• You’re Addicted to Your Smartphone. This Company Thinks It Can Change That (Haley Sweetland Edwards, TIME)
• Agile at Scale (Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, Andy Noble, Harvard Business Review)
• The Man Who Perfected the Laugh Track: Charlie Douglass changed the way TV viewers watch comedies (Willa Paskin, Slate)
• The Car of the Year That Few Americans Want: Despite winning North American Car of the Year at the Detroit auto show, sales lag for the Honda Accord (Sean McLain, Wall Street Journal)
• An Invisible Boundary That Divides The US Has Started to Shift Out of Place. Not good. (Peter Dockrill, Science Alert)
• Go Fast and Break Things: The Difference Between Reversible and Irreversible Decisions (Shane Parrish, Farnam Street)
• How Nick Saban Keeps Alabama Football Rolling (Brian O’Keefe, Fortune)

LISTEN

• The Habitat: On a remote mountain in Hawaii, there’s a fake planet Mars. Six volunteers are secluded in an imitation Mars habitat where they will work as imitation astronauts for one very real year. The goal: to help NASA understand what life might be like on the red planet—and plan for the day when the dress rehearsals are over, and we blast off for real. Host Lynn Levy has been chronicling this experiment from the moment the crew set foot in their habitat, communicating with them through audio diaries that detail their discoveries, their frustrations, and their evolving and devolving relationships with each other. From those diaries, Gimlet Media has crafted an addictive serialized documentary: the true story of a fake planet.

LOOK

• Amazon Prime has 100 million-plus Prime memberships — here’s how HBO, Netflix and Tinder compare (Ranni Mola, Recode)

WATCH

• How Nick Saban Keeps Alabama Football Rolling (Brian O’Keefe, Fortune)

BOOKS