Silicon Valley Needs To Be More Willing To Talk Openly About Failures (Techdirt)
This is Silicon Valley’s stupid secret that really should be discussed more openly. Lots of startups fail. It happens all the time.
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LA School District Wants Refunds for Education iPads (Boing Boing)
They paid nearly $1000 each for 44,000 iPads loaded with an incomplete educational curriculum they hadn’t even seen.
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PEN Literary Awards Shortlist Revealed (GalleyCat)
The PEN American Center has revealed the shortlists and judges for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards.
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Considering Tech and the Home (Sacha Chua)
I came across an interesting exercise in Barbara Sher’s I Could Do Anythng If I Only Knew What It Was: to pick a scenario and try fully committing to it, even just for a little while.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Harbor Nocturne (and others)
Re LAPUD demanding refunds, there is the matter of caveat emptor. What self-respecting organization buys a “pig in a poke” and then has the audacity to complain that the pig isn’t satisfactory? LAUPD purchased in haste so now they get to repent in leisure.
Apple delivered the iPads. Pearson, a subcontractor to Apple, didn’t deliver the digital curriculum materials. Thus, I suppose that they have to sue Apple to get to Pearson. But LAUPD cancelled the project before it was scheduled to be completed.
I would not want to be involved in adjudicating this mess.