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Hi Social Media ReInvention Community! Today’s share-worthy links are packed with David Letterman content. May 20, 2015 marked the King of Late Night’s final show. Mr. Letterman is one of my heroes (shared in my public fan letter to him). Many moons ago, Mr. Letterman inspired me to brave the St. Louis standup comedy open mic night circuit when I was in college. I will miss him.
Long Live The King.
Thank you for indulging me. Your continued support and sharing of my work mean a lot to me. I hope you’ll enjoy these links during your Sunday Brunch — Have a Blessed and Safe Memorial Day Weekend with family and friends!
1. Farewells and Retrospective Content for David Letterman. The following links are my favorite articles, interviews, and highlights from or about David Letterman’s final broadcast. Included are the heartfelt and moving tributes from Letterman’s proteges: Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien. Both men express their profound gratitude to the King of Late Night who forever changed and influenced their professional lives.
2. Vanity Fair: What “MySpace Tom” Thinks of HBO’s Silicon Valley. Tom Anderson was the former Co-Founder and President of a little company he sold for $580 million: MySpace. Remember them? Anderson’s take on how HBO’s Silicon Valley accurately satirizes the region’s self-referential platitudes about “changing the world,” “scalable solutions,” and all their other cliches “about making the world” a better place is perfectly captured here (note I added the formatting for emphasis):
It does ring true. I think the show’s most successful in highlighting the deluded self-perception of so many in the industry. “To make the world a better place,” is a running joke and one that struck me as the funniest. When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band—that was the path to girls, adulation, money. By the time I’d reached college, everyone wanted to be a doctor or lawyer, for similar motivations. Now it’s dot-coms—start-up founders are the new rock stars; and the self-importance on display is obnoxious, especially when masked by fake altruism.
Read the article to get Anderson’s take on Steve Jobs and Bill Gates regarding who he believes created the more important legacy. The answer may surprise you.
3. LifeHacker: Five Best Mobile Document Scanning Apps. I had been using the app called Genius Scan. That was until I tried to send illegible / unreadable documentation to my attorney for my company. I needed a better iPhone app go-to option. This article pointed me to Scannable by Evernote.
I love this mobile scanner app for several reasons:
- This app seamlessly integrates and easily integrates with Evernote. You sync this up in the app’s settings with the push of a button after you’ve verified your Evernote account.
- The scans are automatically cropped for you. Take a picture with the app and that’s it.
- Single pictures are automatically converted to an image. Multiple pictures are converted to a multiple page PDF. The images look awesome in my Evernote for Mac application.
Oh yeah, it’s free. If you’re an Evernote Power User, I highly recommend this amazing, versatile app.
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