What I am reading today

It has been a few days since I had a chance to sit and read the web — blame it on the slower 3G and WiFi speeds one tends to encounter when traveling. Nevertheless, here are some that are worth reading today. 

• Oakland As are money balling again. [Fangraphs]
• 8 steps for engineering leaders to keep the peace. [Steve Sinofsky]
• 10 big lessons from HackFwd. [Lars Hinrichs]
• Inside the effort to crowd fund NSA-Proof email and chat services. [Vice]
• iOS 7 is not about flat. [Raphael Ouzan]
• With 3.8 million job openings, is there a skills gap? [WVCBPB]
• Smashing through the media hype around iPhone 5s fingerprint reader. [Owen Williams]
• Mapping the Internet – visually. [Visually Blog]
• Unbundling: AOL, Facebook and LinkedIn. [Benedict Evans]
• Close the NSA backdoors [NY Times Editorial Board.]