A Billion-Dollar David vs. a Trillion-Dollar Goliath 

Read Time: 11 minutes

Joe Kiani 

Joe Kiani emigrated to the US from Iran when he was nine. Thirteen years later, he had a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Two years after that, he began working on a way to read oxygen levels in the blood using light. He succeeded, and the “pulse oximeter” was a key factor in building his company, Masimo, from a one-person operation in a California garage into a billion-dollar corporation that monitors the health of more than 200 million patients across the US. “Then, in 2019,” says Katherine Laidlaw, writing in The Hustle, “Kiani learned that Apple, the $3 trillion industry titan, might be infringing on the tech he’d spent decades of his life perfecting.”

The rest of the story is still unfolding, and it reads like a thriller. Click here.

An Ode to “I Hate Myself and I Want to Die” 

Read Time: 8 minutes

In this essay, Freddie deBoer talks about something that everyone experiences – some more than others – and his way of thinking about it. “I’m talking about a type of self-pity,” he writes, “that the self recognizes as self-pity which just provokes more self-loathing and from that more self-pity.” Click here for more.

I Couldn’t Resist This Piece from Far Out Magazine 

Read Time: 16 minutes

The title was too good: “10 actors who declined roles in Quentin Tarantino movies.” Click here.