Why are you traveling? Because, you know, you don’t magically get a prize at the end of your life for having been to the most places. There is nothing inherently valuable in travel, no matter how hard
There is the perception, particularly in American culture, that criticism and negativity go hand-in-hand. We understand well the idea of being in favor or something, or against something, but we don’t particularly understand how criticism fits into this dichotomy. As someone with a penchant for…
When I do speaking gigs, I open with a few questions to get to know the audience. I’m looking for a couple of key demographic numbers to gauge how much to focus on and tune different themes in any giv
Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Matt Webb and I'm CEO of BERG . We make a cloud-based platform called BERG Cloud to invent and then run web-connected physical devices. We also make hardware devel
You’re at a new conference, but the faces look the same. The speakers all are familiar. The names? Few surprises. You’re seeing theconference circuit at work. Hedging Their Bet This isn’t some conspir
Every product maker that I know wants to create products that delight their customers, yet not every product does this. Why? Products are often less than delightful for a number of reasons, but a comm
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night will keep the post office from delivering the mail. And neither will chicken scratch. Each year, the USPS successfully ships over 160 billion packages and l
It's kind of painful to re-live this one. As a programmer, you learn to blame your code first, second, and third... and somewhere around 10,000th you blame the compiler. Well down the list after that, you blame the hardware. This is my hardware bug story. Among other things, I wrote the memory card…
I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, no
In 1992 the Newton group at Apple was in a small, unmarked building a mile off-campus on Bubb Road. It was a pretty good location for a project that was secretive and needed isolation from the rabble
Theater Review | 'Sleep No More' Shakespeare Slept Here, Albeit Fitfully Sleep No More Sophie Bortolussi as Lady Macbeth and Nicholas Bruder as Macbeth in this site-specific show on West 27th Street.
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Those pushy Macbeths may be backstabbing social climbers, but you must admit that their new digs are to die for. The Thane of Cawdor and his wife have moved into a deserted hotel in the hinterlands of
Core Values October 17, 2013 This past weekend I was in Montréal for the Çingleton conference and had a pretty awesome time. A big thanks to Scott , Luc , and Guy for putting it on again this year, an
On Saturday night, I stepped into the McKittrick hotel with five friends. Three hours later, I found myself back on the sidewalk of 27th Street, catching my breath, my heart still racing, my mind stil
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Marco Arment recently wrote what most people with top apps were thinking and what David Barnard predicted over a year ago: “Paid-up-front iOS apps had a great run, but it’s over.” Besides being an app maker, I am a hopeless optimist. Given that my very, very favorite business model happens to be…
I never got into the idea of catching up on my read later queue through speed reading , but, for those who did, Velocity is a great choice. I have been testing Velocity for the past month, and it come
Static vs. dynamic typing is one of those recurring squabbles that you should immediately run away from. None of the arguments matter, because there are easy to cite examples of big, famous applicatio
I have a friend who dates only exceptionally attractive women. These women aren’t trophy-wife types—they are comparable to him in age, education level, and professional status. They are just really, n
When Vesper 1.0 launched, it represented months of discussion, planning, consideration, and scrutiny. Our real goal was to create an experience that we ourselves genuinely enjoyed, but we also made a number of educated guesses about where iOS might be headed. This past June when Apple unveiled iOS 7…
This article is from the archive of our partner . If you thought the series finale of Breaking Bad tied the story of Walter White up in a neat little bow, think again. In the four days since "Felina" aired, some critics and fans have been thinking and rethinking what they say in the episode on the…
Last week, iOS 7 updates of our music apps went live on the App Store. I’d like to show some of the design decisions we made in bringing these apps to the new look, and share some of what we’ve learne
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A long time ago, there was a big fight between Engineering and Marketing regarding the name of a new 1.0 product. I was not there, but the fight went something like this: Engineering: “So what are we
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