The key company that builds most of the processors used in your phones and devices is TSMC. The Acquired podcast flew to Taiwan and interviewed the founder of TSMC, Morris Chang. Lots of good stories of how they started and how TSMC started building chips for Apple.
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Your data goes through Ciena’s Fiber compression algorithm
Ciena figures out ways to increase throughput of fiber channels. The Verge Decoder podcast interviewed the CEO Gary Smith. It is one of those companies that you have never heard of but has been plugging away for 20 years. It’s a public company and all your data is squeezed down fiber lines using their technology.
Reading Homo Deus
Thanks to Andrew Eldon for encouraging me to read Homo Deus. It is one of those ? books. Now listening to an interview with Yuval Noah Harari. He is spot on about how we are in the era of listening to data instead of our feelings. Sorry…just a second my Apple Watch is telling me to stand BRB….
3/11: Update – Listened to Russell Brand’s Under the Skin podcast with Yuval as well.