Monster, Platforms, Libraries, Bike Angel, Azores - Five Things - Issue #287

Gig-economy companies like Uber and Instacart are on the verge of overtaking the traditional economy. And the only people who understand the threat are the ones enabling it.

The essential value of the internet is conversation, not content—and journalists need to embrace it.

A Forbes column arguing that Amazon should replace libraries grossly underestimates how many services libraries offer.

Joe Miller is famous in the Bike Angel world. It's time you got acquainted.

Azoreans who left their home for California suffer from a special kind of homesickness, saudade. I came to share their feeling.

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