Tuesday’s Interests: Uber and an Uber for Bikes

Tuesday’s interests are all about Business & Technology.  Uber’s new CEO shifts gears while Californians complain about electric bikes cluttering up their cities.

quote

• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

read

• At Uber, a New C.E.O. Shifts Gears (Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker)
• “It’s Wheelmageddon”: San Francisco Is Being Overrun by Venture-Backed Scooters ( Maya Kosoff, Vanity Fair)
• Robots Could Replace Surgeons in the Battle Against Cancer (Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It? ( Sapna Maheshwari)
• Pinterest Isn’t a Social Network (Christina Bonnington)
  

listen

• Marc Garneau on the Future of Transportation (The Knowledge Project, Farnum Street)

watch

• How to Build a Company Where the Best Ideas Win (Ray Dalio, TED)

Look

• Bird “personal electric vehicle sharing” (Instagram)
• In Photos: A Look at China’s Space Station That’s Crashing to Earth (Jeanna Bryner, Live Science)
• Visit our Pinterest boards for more interesting images

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