Many of us think we can multitask to our hearts’ content, but studies reveal that our brains aren’t nearly as adept at doing so as we would have us believe. Research shows that multitasking can really

@danielpunkass: Great article from @manton about getting serious and prioritizing your dreams. Are you willing to go without food? http://bit.ly/6JWEU

August 28, 2009 User Experience Myths Keith Lang has temporarily abandoned his usual digs and written an essay for carsonified.com . Titled Top 10 UX Myths , it contains a number of common false or mi

Typography has a visceral and direct effect on everybody who reads. It can inhibit or enhance the feel of reading without being consciously noticeable. It does so by combining specific visuals that echo cultural memories, which are hopefully servile to the words they spell.

T he first definition is the most familiar: one who reads, or one who is fond of reading . A young girl tucked under a tree with a book in hand; an old man waiting for the bus, nose pressed into the spine; three little boys sitting on the curb sharing a newspaper, ink smudged on their knees. The…

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Belief in a God based on rational thought For other uses, see Deism (disambiguation) . Not to be confused with theism . Deism ( DEE -iz-əm or DAY -iz-əm ; derived from the Latin term deus , meaning "

The brother-in-law lives in the ‘burbs and needed five trees removed. Not big trees — 10 to 15 feet tall, six-inch trunks. Not a problem. I live on the edge of a redwood forest in Northern California.

September 9, 2009 Inventing the Lisa User Interface It's always interesting to see when and why the UI paradigms we take for granted were discovered . Knowing why our systems look the way they do, wha

An often repeated mantra is this: correlation does not imply causation. This is wrong. In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume lays out his famous argument against induction. In particular, he writes: He rightly observes that our best attempts to make sense of the world consist in…

Elizabeth Méndez Berry on DC’s new green shoots, the editors on Doctorow’s newspaper, Pamela Samuelson on the Google Books settlement. Holts Summit, Mo. For the first time, family reunification for same-sex binational couples is being included in broader immigration reform. The Google Books…

Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . October 2009 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2009 Startup School.) I wasn't sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decidedto as

I'm a partner at a16z where I focus on web3 . My interests include programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups, and investing. Sign up to receive new blog posts by email. Selected writing: Co

thejohnny: My entire existence has been reduced to handbook form. With the big exception of travel, it's spot on. http://bit.ly/2UtaJ2

September 17, 2009 How Many Tabs Do People Use? (Not Many.) I've been remiss not to link to Patrick Dubroy's findings on how people use tabs. As part of his master’s thesis, he has done an extensive

September 18, 2009 Even More on Installing Applications I wrote about this over a year ago and again twice in july . Now, Alexander Limi from the Mozilla Foundation has written an essay about Firefox'

Feature of Yiddish expressing parody or skepticism Shm-reduplication is a form of reduplication originating in Yiddish in which the original word or its first syllable (the base ) is repeated with the

There are two possibilities regarding the iPhone’s continued lack of a system-wide copy-and-paste clipboard. Either Apple’s iPhone UI team doesn’t plan to add it, or, they haven’t gotten to it yet. I