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Effectual Reasoning: The Little Known Method Entrepreneurs Use to Figure Out What They Want Man has suffered another loss in his more recent development inasmuch as the traditions which buttressed his behavior are now rapidly diminishing. No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition…
Neuroscientist Christof Koch discusses scientific theories of consciousness with the Dalai Lama. New theories in neuroscience suggest consciousness is an intrinsic property of everything, just like gr
State of the Art The Uber Model, It Turns Out, Doesn’t Translate Credit... Stuart Goldenberg In San Francisco, as in most cities, parking is an expensive daily grind that saps the soul. So a year and
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Half-a-billion people stored files on Dropbox. Well, sort of. Really, the files were in Amazon’s cloud. Until Dropbox built its own. And threw the switch. If you're one of 500 million people who use D
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups;
Ten years ago yesterday Amazon evangelist Jeff Barr posted a 222-word post on the Amazon Web Services Blog 1 that opened: Earlier today we rolled out Amazon S3, our reliable, highly scalable, low-late
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Donald Trump has managed to create an aura of violence and threatened violence around his campaign events. Everyone is getting alarmed by this, but I detect an element of bad faith in that reaction, b
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português As you get older, it can be tough to remember what being in your twenties was really like. Not how it looks in your employees’ carefree Ins
OS X's command line and I have never been what I'd call "friendly"; rather, we have a mutual respect and understanding about not messing with each other. (Well, as much of a mutual respect as one can
8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M. Here is the Italian and French translations. Life is busy. It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job and kids, it’s even harder. How do you move forward? If you don’t purposefully carve time out every day to progress…
Fancy owning Apple Inc, the entire company, for no money down? Well if the current share price level doesn’t go any higher, in less than 8 years time someone will be able to pick up the company effect
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A few years ago a blog called The Philosophy Smoker hosted a discussion of women’s dress. The blog’s motto (‘In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are bitched griped about’) and its
Forum The Logic of Effective Altruism A minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of one’s spare resources to make the world a better place. Photo: Adam Cohn I met Matt Wage
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