Gary Taubes is a polarizing author with a new diet book, “The Case for Keto”. He raised $40 million to fund nutrition studies from respected scientists and claims that we’ve been lied to by the authorities. He exploded onto the scene in 2002 with a cover story in the New York Times magazine entitled “What If It’s All Been A Big Fat Lie” and got a huge advance from a publisher to turn it into a…

The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT

“The thing I loved most about working in developer relations at NeXT was how Steve could call anyone,” Chris MacAskill writes for Cake. “He would burst in my office and say, ‘I’m gonna call Bill about TrueType,’ and gesture for me to follow. A minute later he’d have Bill Gates on the speaker phone with me in fly-on-the-wall mode. ‘BUT BILL! You ripped off Adobe and made John cry.’ (John Warnock…