Rent vs. buy. In finance circles, it's a bigger debate than "paper vs. plastic" or "tastes great vs. less filling." It remains a debate fought by smart people on both sides, because the variables make
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I don’t remember the exact day I first met most of my friends, but with Warren Buffett I do. It was 25 years ago today: July 5, 1991. I think the date stands out in my mind so clearly because it marke
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Petr Gazarov Software developer at PolicyGenius https://github.com/petrgazarov Aug 13 5 min read Before I learned software development, API sounded like a kind
What is your morning routine? I wake up anywhere between 4:00am and 4:30am. My body does this naturally. I would definitely call myself a morning person; I absolutely love what my kids call “the dark
Lifestyle / Health & Wellness Proponents of the one-meal diet insist people who want to lose weight are better off eating just once a day. But there's plenty of evidence to the contrary too + FOLLOW P
Journey Mapping is a common technique used in the field of User Experience to design new customer experiences. It is often used when developing new products or
Meet Bob Messerschmidt. Apple quietly acquired Messerschmidt’s startup in 2010 (after Messerschmidt sent Steve Jobs an unsolicited email, but that’s another story). Afterwards, Messerschmidt was place
How should governments respond to the prostitution trade? It’s a question laced with deep-rooted contests – over power, money and the pursuit of equality. But as organisations and advocates increasing
For centuries, humans have recognized that the mind is the most complicated thing we encounter. To understand the mind, then, we compare it to the most complicated technology of the era. When water de
Uber Travis Kalanick has to get Uber's bet on self-driving cars right. "It starts with understanding that the world is going to go self-driving and autonomous," he told Business Insider in an intervie
Photo via Pixabay It’s not the only place that matters David Kadavy Aug 15, 2016 · 5 min read I resisted moving to South America, as much as I enjoyed my time there during my mini-lives over the past
Nate Silver, “ Trump Is Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy ”: So it’s not surprising that Trump has undertaken a major shakeupof his campaign, hiring Bannon and promoting the pollsterKellyanne Conway.
Apple Inc. has hit roadblocks in making major changes that would connect its Watch to cellular networks and make it less dependent on the iPhone, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The
David Kadavy Jun 10, 2016 · 3 min read You can listen to an audio version of this article here . We all have habits that we’d like to build. We want to go to the gym three times a week, we want to med
What is your morning routine? I am not a morning person. This is exactly why first thing in the morning is my most critical creative time. Research shows that your off-peak times are the best for insi
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Summary. What makes a good listener? Most people think is comes down to three components: not interrupting the speaker, following along with facial expressions, and being a
Over the winter vacation I relaxed and spent time away from thinking about the startup fundraising process . I had a latent interest in Jekyll ever since Tom Preston-Werner (Cofounder of GitHub) creat
Getting a job in Product Management is a very unique process. It’s is one of the few roles in the tech industry where the need to show your capabilities
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português In today’s highly competitive business environment, we all need to be in constant learning mode. No one can afford to take a vacation from
Aug 13th 2016 IMAGINE a world in which getting fitted with a new heart, liver or set of kidneys, all grown from your own body cells, was as commonplace as knee and hip replacements are now. Or one in
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Tagged: Should a team that is estimating in story points ever re-estimate? This is a question I'm commonly asked and would like to address here. Most people have a natural feeling that re-estimating i
The Apple App Store shows no signs of slowing down, despite the fact that people seem to limit the number of apps they use regularly to just a small handful. But developers keep building, so the apps
It took Hunter Walk 15 years to realize he didn’t have to be a director of product to be a product leader. After his time on the early Linden Lab team which built the legendary virtual world of “Secon
Apple Inc. is preparing the first significant overhaul of its MacBook Pro laptop line in over four years, according to people familiar with the matter, using one of its older products to help reverse
In February 1991, the very month that Walmart overtook the most iconic American retailer in sales , Sears spokesman Jerry Buldak told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the companies couldn’t really be co
Eddy Cue doesn’t look like a man in the midst of his toughest year in decades. Sporting an untucked apricot camp shirt and blue jeans over camouflage socks and a pair of blue leather racing shoes from
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Summary. Managers and employees increasingly find themselves stumbling through the workday bombarded by distractions from every direction. Constant updates from digital dev
The Illustrated Guide to the KonMari Method The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo Here in the States, minimalism isn’t exactly a point o
A source who has provided reliable information in the past has informed us that the new MacBook Pro models, expected to be launched in the fall, will feature a Touch ID power button as well as the pre
A FastCo piece based on interviews with CEO Tim Cook and SVPs Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi may be long on commentary and light on quotes, but it does provide a few interesting insights along the way.
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Who could doubt the existence of altruism? True, news stories of malice and greed abound. But
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