‘I tried to reflect what travel was really like for me and that’s where the comedy comes in’ … Bill Bryson. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian I t is amazing how much past you can accumulate without any effort at all, and I admit to being shocked when my publisher drew my attention to the…

Santtu Mustonen IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility. As you sort everything into…

On the outskirts of al-Omar oilfield in eastern Syria, with warplanes flying overhead, a line of trucks stretches for 6km. Some drivers wait for a month to fill up with crude. Falafel stalls and tea shops have sprung up to cater to the drivers, such is the demand for oil. Traders sometimes leave…

CHVRCHES's Lauren Mayberry One of the more counterintuitive rules of pop music says that the least original artists often end up being the most imitated ones. That’s how Elvis can be simultaneously remembered as the person who made America rock and the guy who stole from the true creators of rock;…

I have been working with a group on whether they should have a single organizational backlog or whether they should separate their backlog into a product backlog and a technical improvements backlog. Like many places they want to make sure that infrastructure and technical debt is prioritized…

The threat of cyber-security is an ever growing , ever topical problem within the tech sector. As a direct result of business and consumer privacy concerns, many startups are entering the space to remedy the trust that this vertical is losing. Ravelin is a smart fraud detection startup and…

This is an article about Hilbert Curves . Hilbert Curves are named after the German mathematician David Hilbert . They were first described in 1891. A Hilbert curve is a continuous space-filing curve. They are also fractal and are self-similar; If you zoom in and look closely at a section of a…

If I knew what I knew in the past I would have been blacked out on your a** —Kanye West, Black Skinhead Kanye West - Black Skinhead | Listen for free at bop.fm Because I am a prominent advocate for founders running their own companies, whenever a founder fails to scale or gets replaced by a…

London is a bad thing. Everybody knows this now. Britain has had enough of London. Ed Miliband failed in part because he was ‘too north London’ (euphemism) and Chuka Umunna would fail just the same because he is too south London (euphemism). According to one commentator, Britain’s capital is now a ‘…

For anyone familiar with vision, values and purpose, chances are that you’ve heard of Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. Built to Last (written by both Collins and Porras) and Good to Great (written by Collins) have been described by The Economist as “the Harry Potters of management literature”. Built to…

I’m really three people. One of my personalties is my past self. The other one is my future self. And most of the time, I’m just my current self. My current self is just a regular guy. He’s busy, lazy and has lots of great excuses not to do certain things. My future self is awesome. He doesn’t mind…

.io is one of the fastest-growing top-level domains on the internet, a particular favourite among start-ups and technology companies. It's also one of the most expensive. To the ear of the tech-savvy, “io” sounds like “input/output”, and it’s used for everything from business software and databases…

An architectural diagram for enterprise selling. ↗️ Many of the technical founders I have the opportunity to work with are well-versed in the architecture and features of their products (and products in general), but when it comes to possessing a similar view of the sales process there’s a good…

Members of the New Horizons team react to seeing the spacecraft's image of Pluto For decades after its discovery in 1930, Pluto looked like nothing more than a gray smudge in the abyss of space. We knew it was there—even knew its size and gravity—but, without better images, we could not answer…

Post category: Articles Large Scale Decision Forests: Lessons Learned Alex Paino • August 25, 2015 Background of modeling at Sift: We at Sift Science provide fraud detection for hundreds of customers spanning many industries and use cases. To do this, we have devised a specialized modeling stack…

The Soul of an Octopus: a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness Sy Montgomery Simon & Schuster, 263pp, £12.99 The octopus is a dread creature, so alien that it seems to exist only in our nightmares. In the sea on which his ancient mariner sailed, where “the very deep did rot”,…

When I hear other people talking about procrastination, I find myself getting proprietorial: surely their fleeting pauses are as nothing to mine. Procrastination is the main way I express anxiety and depression, if I can use these medicalised, dignifying terms. It’s franker to say that I put things…

A decade ago , I wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and American oyster culture has been in overdrive ever since. Where there used to…

Edinburgh Fringe 2015 Bettine Mackenzie Genre: Drama , Solo Show , Storytelling Venue: C Nova Festival: Edinburgh Fringe Low Down “A girl dreams of becoming a pop superstar but happens to be clairvoyant. When she finally gets the chance to perform on stage, she finds that her show has been besieged…

June 2, 2015 Your Org Is a Product Last week I met a friend of mine for coffee to talk about our jobs (we’re both still relatively new at our respective companies), challenges we’re facing and to trade advice on how to tackle those challenges. My friend, an experienced and thoughtful product…

8:01AM BST 11 Jul 2015 I am sitting with Tom Duddy, 79, beside the River Irwell in Springwater Park, Whitefield, on the outskirts of Manchester. We have just been fly fishing for wild brown trout, as Tom does every Wednesday evening now during the summer months. We are talking about the changes Tom…

The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. Credit Illustration by Christoph Niemann; Map by Ziggymaj / Getty When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles…

Color perception is an ancient and active philosophical problem. It’s an instance of the wider category of sensory perception, but since the color spectrum fits on a single line (unlike, say, touch and taste), it has always been of particular interest. In her new book Outside Color , University of…

Wednesday 4 February 2015 An Estonian e-residency identity card Dan Burn-Forti This article was first published in the July 2015 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…

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