As a former Apple Genius and independent Mac Certified Technician, I have seen my fair share of technology problems. Matters have only worsened with the rise of smartphones. Now it’s hard to remember
After meeting with Apple following its iPhone event last week, I’ve been using a jet black iPhone 7 and a black iPhone 7 Plus . I’ve also been using the new AirPods wireless headphones with a number o
A s a cosmologist, some of the questions I hear most frequently after a lecture include: What lies beyond our universe? What is our universe expanding into?
Conspicuous expression of moral values Virtue signalling is a pejorative neologism for the expression of a disingenuous moral viewpoint with the intent of communicating good character. Definition "Vir
We live with six rescued dogs. With the exception of one, who was born in a rescue for pregnant dogs, they all came from very sad situations, including
“Innovation is no longer just about new technology per se. It is about new models of organisation. Design is no longer just about form anymore but is a method
Once you’ve completed Step #3 and clarified the requirements for all the Product Backlog items targeted for your Sprint, the next step is to plan the Sprint in
“If you told me that a nonconformist-liberal-arts-law-school-dropout-three-startups-survivor could become a PM at Facebook five years ago, I would have called bullshit,” wrote Bo Ren this past June. I
With over 500k agile projects in Jira (among just Cloud customers – wow!), we realized we’re sitting on a ton of data that sheds light on how agile teams function. We then bet, that with some anonymiz
Illustration by Ivana Rezek / Flickr I n his first lecture on physics to freshmen and sophomores at the California Institute of Technology, in 1961-62, Richard
Illustrations by Sam Kalda Meditation is a simple practice available to all, which can reduce stress, increase calmness and clarity and promote happiness. Learning how to meditate is straightforward,
Noted atheist author and public intellectual Sam Harris has once again appointed himself a relevant arbiter on matters he is only tenuously familiar with. In a…
Let me start with an admission: I’ve never really liked Apple headphones. I didn’t like the original iPod earbuds, and while the next-generation EarPods were clearly better, I still never found them p
Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, seemed to hint at the existence of the car project at the company’s annual shareholders meeting. Credit.
Marco.org I’m : a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. Apps • Podcast • Twitter • About Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or
One week ago today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 FT rocket exploded, destroying its payload while on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon was loading propellant and per safety protocol all perso
Something has gone badly wrong with our atheists. All these self-styled intellectual titans, scientists, and philosophers have fallen horribly ill. Evolutionist faith-flayer Richard Dawkins is a wheel
I enjoy the writing of Farhad Manjoo, tech columnist at The New York Times , but I was prepared for the hottest of hot takes when I saw his latest column, penned just hours after Apple’s latest produc
Because thinking is hard. Buster Benson Sep 1, 2016 · 12 min read http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/16/on-research/ 2021 update : Wow, over 1.5M reads! The obsession that began with this post has
Whatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind David Blackwell/Flickr i by Keith Frankish + BIO Keith Frankish is a philosopher and writer. He is an honorary reader in philosophy at the
There’s not really any normal way to start a relationship. Some people go on a date, and then another date, and then another, and one day it’s just clear to both of them that they’re in a relationship
In the eight months since I wrote Cars and the Future , there has been an explosion in news about the future of transportation, much of it in the last few weeks: Ford announced plans for its own car-s
Study suggests that man’s best friend probably understands more than we thought when we talk to them. Download PDF Some of the dogs involved in the new study await their next command. Credit: Borbála
The area I most often get asked to help product managers on is preparing them for their upcoming product management interviews. Given that I’ve evaluated hundreds of product management candidates, I w
What is your morning routine? I like to get up early. I typically wake up between 5:00 and 6:00am (closer to 5:30), and the very first thing I do when I get up is drink a pint of water, ideally with s
Was March 21 truly the swan song of Town Hall? Probably, but you never know… So Apple has announced a media event for September 7 , the traditional place where it has unveiled the newest model of iPho
Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? aviannetan.wordpress.com i by Jenny Davidson + BIO Jenny Davidson is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University,
Photography by F. Scott Schafer In just 12 years, the Facebook founder built an empire of 1.71 billion followers. His next goal: to friend the rest of humanity. Down the hall from Mark Zuckerberg’s de
“Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge,” Bertrand Russell wrote in his 1925 treatise on the nature of the good life and how we limit our
Alexander Mueller/Flickr Rachel Jonas is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at UCLA, where she studies brain-behaviour relationships in individuals with an
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