Adrienne LaFrance, writing for The Atlantic, “ Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine ”: People tend to complain about Facebook as if something recentlycurdled. There’s a notion that the social web was once u
Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use (@annawiener / New Yorker)
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A system without a goal is like a marathon without a finish line. But a system with a bad goal will result in a bad outcome. Traditional goal-setting methods
If you want to make friends at a party, bring dessert. Don’t bring something standard. That’s boring. Bring something unique and fit for the occasion. A
To improve your writing, binge-read your favorite writers and shamelessly copy their style. Whenever I find a writer I admire, I mimic them in my next article.
Bitcoin may have hit new highs, but @tylercowen sees a fundamental unresolved problem for the future of cryptocurrency https://t.co/0WZPORTAej @bopinionより
Interstitial journaling is a productivity technique created by Tony Stubblebine. To my knowledge, it’s the simplest way to combine note-taking, tasks, and time
November 29th, 2021 | Grappling competition When you have momentum, rolling the dice seems easier.During my triathlon last month, I said that I felt like competing in martial arts again.So, I picked u
The demonstration began on the afternoon of May 21, 1946, at a secret laboratory tucked into a canyon some three miles from Los Alamos, New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb. Louis Slotin, a Can
December 2020 [TL;DR: Google has gotten bad; we all know it; ideas for a startup making a better Google.] In 2000, Google got popular because hackers realized it was better than Lycos or Excite. This
A pop phenom. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg If an initial public offering has a “pop” on opening day, does that mean somebody was ripped off? Did the company leave money on the table by allow
Updated October 21, 2020 Robinhood Learn Democratize finance for all. Our writers’ work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, Quartz, the San Francisco Chronicle, and m
👋 Hello, I’m Lenny and welcome to a ✨ once-a-month-free-edition ✨ of my newsletter. Each week I humbly tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stre
The intellectual world is like a map. Whenever you share an idea, you improve the map of knowledge either by clarifying ideas that have already been mapped or by expanding the map with new information
My favorite Derek Sivers article is called “Assume You’re Below Average.” Most people think they’re better than others, so he cites statistics like “Ninety-six
Building model airports was my favorite childhood hobby. I had a collection of plastic airplanes and used a pencil and paper to draw the gates and runways. Each
Technology advances faster than social norms. Large gaps between accelerating technologies and stagnating social norms create lucrative opportunities. But these
We are endlessly fascinated with the working habits of writers and creatives. Even though there's a chasm between the work of a fiction writer and that of a
In this photo illustration, a visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency Ripple is displayed on January 30, 2018 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images The price of XRP plunged again Wednes
Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Dec 21 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that
For as long as most people can remember, the tech industry has had a new centre roughly every fifteen years. A model of computing sets the agenda, and the
Sources: Apple plans to produce up to 96M iPhones for H1 2021, a nearly 30% YoY increase, and is also working on a new Apple TV for next year (Nikkei Asia)
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In chemistry, activation energy is the energy that must be provided to result in a chemical reaction. The more energy is needed, the harder it is to start the chemical reaction. In work and life as we
When I was in 6th grade, I won a competition with friends by memorizing 17 digits of Pi. I was proud of myself until I learned that World Memory champion Gary
Mary Oliver wrote most of her poems while walking. She rejected the assumption that you need to sit down at your computer to write. Every morning, she picked up
Make your reading more productive by taking notes while you read. For writers, reading is as much about sparking ideas as it is about consuming information.
I used to suffer from terrible writer’s block. Ideas buzzed through my mind whenever I spoke with friends or walked around New York City. But my brain turned off once I started typing. To be creative,
Anne-Laure Le Cunff has always been fascinated with the mind and how it works. In fact, she left a career in tech to launch Ness Labs , a neuroscience-based
This year was both the slowest and the fastest of my life. Some parts feel like a blur, others feel like they lasted forever. First, I lost my grandmother . I want to mention it straightaway in the in
What a fascinating product Apple’s new AirPods Max are. At $550, they are indisputably expensive, and at 385 grams, they are undeniably heavy. They’re also, indisputably, very nice. Apple sent me a pa
Note: I will revisit and correct this essay when all the data is published—as it looks, I was at least partially wrong. I In this small addendum to my essay we want to look at a very surprising statis
Apple AirPods Max review: high-luxury design, terrific sound quality, and very effective noise cancellation, but they are heavy and the case is an abomination (@chriswelch / The Verge)
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LOS ANGELES -- Second-year guard Talen Horton-Tucker 's outstanding second game of the preseason already has Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel scratching his head about his rotation. "It's going to
After a chaotic offseason that saw the NBA draft and free agency compressed into a single week -- followed almost immediately by abbreviated training camps amid teams adjusting to newly implemented CO
Internal memo: Google now plans to have employees return to office in September 2021 and is testing a flexible model of three days in office, two days WFH (@daiwaka / New York Times)
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The TL;DR Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are like drive-thru windows, but in code: they take inputs and give you predictable outputs . At its core, an API is a bunch of code that takes an i
[Click below to listen to an audio version of this article.] Eating something sweetened with a sugar substitute won’t by itself cause your glucose levels to spike. That’s because these artificial swee
Nintendo uses a product-development philosophy called “Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology.” It led to the 20th century’s most successful game console:
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