Published in Eden The Cat · 7 min read · Oct 12, 2017 -- Look, I’m really not sure what type of image you’re supposed to use on an essay about being assaulted so here’s one where I look nice. Whatever

Susan Fowler describes herself as “an amateur myrmecologist.” Credit... Damien Maloney for The New York Times With...Susan Fowler She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next? In her first int

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Image Credit: Hallie Bateman In the late 1990s, the phrase the “new economy” was coined in reaction to Internet companies that seemed to defy all the normal laws of business physics. They could raise

Five ways I cope with worrying as a leader. The other week, I interviewed Jason Fried, CEO and co-founder of Basecamp. I asked him what he wish he would’ve learned earlier as a leader. His response? W

Students often go to visit Warren Buffett. And when they do, he often plays a little game on them. He asks each student to pick a classmate. Not just any classmate, but the classmate you would choose

Published in Instagram Engineering · 6 min read · Feb 6, 2017 -- React Native has come a long way since it was open-sourced in 2015. Fewer than two years later, it’s being used not only in Facebook an

One day Donald Trump will succumb to the fate that awaits every fat seventy-year-old who refuses to exercise on principle, and die. It will probably be quick and it will probably be soon. It may be ha

I will never forget the day Julian Niccolini, the silver-haired owner of the old The Four Seasons in Midtown, personally served me in the landmark Grill Room, the institution that invented the power l

O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte

When it comes to writing and being productive, I’ve learned a few tricks over the years. And one of them has to do with relentless capture, organization, and doing the work. As I mentioned last week,

Bill de Blasio Will Push for Tax on Wealthy to Fix Subway Mayor Bill de Blasio, shown here on the A train, will announce a so-called millionaires tax on Monday for wealthy New York City residents to p

Published in Positive Slope · 9 min read · Jan 2, 2017 -- As a product-obsessed entrepreneur and investor, I rarely focus on financing mechanics in the start-up world. It tends to be a binary outcome,

My mother read to me when I was young, like mothers do. But instead of Dr. Seuss or Betsy Byars, it was Heinlein. Bradbury. Asimov. Stories of new worlds, new ideas, and possibilities for the future. It was a key ingredient in my childhood, but one I learned to keep quiet in my hometown in Oklahoma…

Published in Rick Webb · 8 min read · Dec 29, 2014 -- How I manage to read 60 books a year without being a speed reader. Since posting my 2014 books read list, (along with 2013 , & 2012 , etc.), sever

back to Overview Michael Sippey on the Role of Product Management Sharing: , twitter This morning on my way to work on the German Autobahn, I could listen to the last episode of the Track Changes Podc

More readers, wider distribution, new audiences. An enjoyable place to write. Win, win, win. Win. Just about a year ago we switched this blog, Signal vs. Noise, to Medium. Here’s the post announcing t

Shutterstock FAQ Even if I only ordered $8 worth of food? That’s a 62 percent tip! Yes. Even if your order is under $25, tip at least $5. Even if the pizzeria is ten feet from my door? They barely had

Upon a full psychological evaluation, it was determined that I wasn’t safe to be on my own. I was cooperative, agreeing to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for a 5150 (72 hour) hold. I did not have much of a choice, but I knew that being cooperative would be the most helpful for myself in…

This post contains frank discussion of Westworld Season 1, Episode 5 “Contrapasso.” If you’re not caught up, now is the time to leave. Ever since Episode 2 of HBO’s twisty, sci-fi Western Westworld ,

I’m writing this down if only so I can reference it myself later. Maybe this will help you, dear reader in some not-too-distant future. If you are making an iOS app that plays spoken-word audio (like, say, a podcast app) and you want your audio to pause when another app plays some audio…

This is The Brandy Library at 25 North Moore Street in New York, NY. Published in The Stories · 9 min read · Oct 16, 2016 -- When waiters are polite heroes. Women in bars don’t always have the best ex

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It’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding the screen closer to my face. I’ve worried that my eyesight is starting to go. These

By Toria Gibbs, Ian Malpass Oct 19, 2016 This post is based on a talk and workshop that Toria and Ian gave at Etsy’s Dublin office in August. Etsy has a strong set of beliefs that underpins our engine

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Published in Serious Eats · 5 min read · May 18, 2016 -- [Photograph: Niki Achitoff-Gray] “Would you be upset or only embarrassed,” I asked my wife last week, “if I bought Soylent?” She admitted she s

For the past five years, XOXO has ended with a warning that there might never be another one. The event — an annual gathering of 1,200 or so creative types in Portland — promotes the work of independe

If I move a muscle, I’m dead. Jane, who I’m pretty sure is a Werewolf, is jumping from one player to the next, testing will and looking for weakness. She’s looking for a sign of guilt or discomfort an

Ricky Agustin, pouring a drink at Pegu Club. Photo: Melissa Hom Do not be fooled by Ricky Agustin, the dapper and debonair 27-year-old assistant general manager at New York’s storied Pegu Club . Yes,

Two Kinds of Estimation Exercises There are really two kinds of estimation exercises in software: I know what I need to deliver, when do I think we’ll be done? I know when we need to be done, what do

One night in March of last year, Jay-Z showed up at the Spotted Pig, on West Eleventh Street, with his wife, Beyoncé, and another couple. Jay-Z, an investor in the restaurant, and a frequent patron, w

27 min read · Dec 15, 2015 -- I’m a software developer and since the very beginning I’ve always had mixed feelings about programming. On one hand, you can accomplish so much with it. On the other, it’

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Jun 16th, 2016 There’s a reason email is so addicting. Like a roulette wheel or a slot machine, there’s always a chance of something exciting coming your way. On the other hand, there’s also an equal chance that terrible news is coming your way in any given piece of electronic mail. The kind of…

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