“Travis’s biggest strength is that he will run through a wall to accomplish his goals. Travis’s biggest weakness is that he will run through a wall to accomplish his goals. That’s the best way to describe him.” The NYT’s Mike Isaac (who has been all over the various Uber stories) with a very interesting piece: Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire. (The weird thing about Uber is that they don’t seem satisfied being the fastest growing startup ever. It’s still somehow worth it to unnecessarily bend one more rule or break with one more workplace norm.)

+ Maybe Uber is worried because the transportation industry is shifting so rapidly. Sure, they disrupted taxis. But now self-driving cars are trying to disrupt them. And by the time you ride in one of those, your neighbor will zoom past … overhead. The NYT’s John Markoff: No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car.