Matthew McConaughey soccer movie based on true story suddenly canned over “disturbing allegations"
A Matthew McConaughey-starring soccer movie called Dallas Sting has been suddenly canceled, just a few weeks before production was set to begin. Set in 1984, the movie was supposed to be about the true story of a girls soccer team that went to China to compete in an international tournament and went on to defeat several major teams and ultimately win the tournament, with Matthew McConaughey playing their coach Bill Kinder. Weirdly, we don’t know exactly why the movie has been canceled, but Th...
Matthew McConaughey soccer movie based on true story suddenly canned over “disturbing allegations"
A Matthew McConaughey-starring soccer movie called Dallas Sting has been suddenly canceled, just a few weeks before production was set to begin. Set in 1984, the movie was supposed to be about the true story of a girls soccer team that went to China to compete in an international tournament and went on to defeat several major teams and ultimately win the tournament, with Matthew McConaughey playing their coach Bill Kinder. Weirdly, we don’t know exactly why the movie has been canceled, but Th...
Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
The growth of the data infrastructure industry has continued unabated since we published a set of reference architectures in late 2020. Nearly all key industry metrics hit record highs during the past year, and new product categories appeared faster than most data teams could reasonably keep track. Even the benchmark wars and billboard battles returned. To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, we’re publishing in this post an updated set of data infrastructure ...
Emerging Architectures for Modern Data Infrastructure
The growth of the data infrastructure industry has continued unabated since we published a set of reference architectures in late 2020. Nearly all key industry metrics hit record highs during the past year, and new product categories appeared faster than most data teams could reasonably keep track. Even the benchmark wars and billboard battles returned. To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, we’re publishing in this post an updated set of data infrastructure ...
Investing in Season Health
Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ – HippocratesIn a world where medication non-adherence is one of the biggest contributors to poor health outcomes, we’ve talked and written about how “food is medicine that we take three times a day”. Food has many properties that you’d wish of medicine – safety (as long as handled, prepared, and stored appropriately), efficacy (a diet of healthy foods is correlated with good health outcomes), and compliance (we all have to eat!) – and i...
Investing in Season Health
Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ – HippocratesIn a world where medication non-adherence is one of the biggest contributors to poor health outcomes, we’ve talked and written about how “food is medicine that we take three times a day”. Food has many properties that you’d wish of medicine – safety (as long as handled, prepared, and stored appropriately), efficacy (a diet of healthy foods is correlated with good health outcomes), and compliance (we all have to eat!) – and i...
Investing in Convex
FacebookLinkedInTwitterDistributed systems are hard to build. Really hard. It’s one of the few aspects of computer science that you can’t hide with a thin layer of software. However, as applications scale, distribution becomes a necessity. It is needed as data and compute requirements grow. And it’s needed to move workloads closer to the users as applications go global. The most sophisticated companies have traditionally hired distributed systems experts to tackle these problems. And even the...
Investing in Convex
FacebookLinkedInTwitterDistributed systems are hard to build. Really hard. It’s one of the few aspects of computer science that you can’t hide with a thin layer of software. However, as applications scale, distribution becomes a necessity. It is needed as data and compute requirements grow. And it’s needed to move workloads closer to the users as applications go global. The most sophisticated companies have traditionally hired distributed systems experts to tackle these problems. And even the...
Investing in Irreverent Labs
It just so happened that on the first afternoon I met the Irreverent Labs team, I was having a pretty miserable day. I had way too many calls scheduled, and due to a set of unusual circumstances, I was working out of a hotel bathroom. I was also unclear on what exactly they were building, as the team had been very secretive ahead of the call. Some sort of chicken game? Sounded weird. I did not have high expectations. I could not have been more wrong. Fifteen minutes into the call, my mood had...
Investing in Irreverent Labs
It just so happened that on the first afternoon I met the Irreverent Labs team, I was having a pretty miserable day. I had way too many calls scheduled, and due to a set of unusual circumstances, I was working out of a hotel bathroom. I was also unclear on what exactly they were building, as the team had been very secretive ahead of the call. Some sort of chicken game? Sounded weird. I did not have high expectations. I could not have been more wrong. Fifteen minutes into the call, my mood had...
