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Pinboard has acquired Delicious (more)

Chris Dixon: Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design (more)

Outcome Health ditches BootStraps, raises $500M at $5B valuation (more)

Teresa Torres: Managing Product Teams for Success - Product Talk (more)

ZenHabits dude (more)

Leo Babauta is switching to a life of No Goals. The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seem to be deeply ingrained in our culture. I know I lived with goals for many years, and in fact a big part of my writings here on Zen Habits are about how to set and achieve goals. (Goal Setting) These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It’s absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn’t mean you stop achieving things. It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals. (more)

Personal Finance author. (more)

Ramit Sethi's new video course on getting paid more at your DayJob closes tonight. (I think this might be the highest-Leverage Personal Finance project you can take on.)

Mickey Drexler and the death of a supply-driven world (Big Retail) (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Frankenstacks and Rhizomes (more)

Renee DiResta compares ChatBot FakeNews to HFT. (more)

Simply: an independent writer, designer and publisher based in Palo Alto, California. (more)

Transcript: Craig Mod on Great Design and Long Journeys interviewed by Paul Ford and Rich Ziade (more)

framing: MacroTimeline, Art And Design Of The Last 100 Years (more)

The Peace of Westphalia (German: Westfälischer Friede) was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster, effectively ending the European wars of religion. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic... The Peace of Westphalia established the precedent of peaces established by diplomatic congress,[4][5] and a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of co-existing sovereign states. Inter-state aggression was to be held in check by a balance of power. A norm was established against interference in another state's domestic affairs. As European influence spread across the globe, these Westphalian principles, especially the concept of sovereign states, became central to international law and to the prevailing world order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia (more)

Self-determination. (more)

Insurance navigator Wellthie looks beyond healthcare with $5M Series A round... prepares to expand into vision, dental and life insurance. (more)

Podcast: Tiago Forte’s Approach to Productivity. But, like with the example of Toyota developing this entire culture around it, using small batch sizes requires skill, and requires a different way of thinking and doing things (more)

Stowe Boyd compares some other folks' maps of emerging technologies. (more)