Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. On it

Paul Ford: “What if I told you that…Medium and Genius are basically the same website?” https://t.co/6FtSVWfEm3

Interviewer: So, you’re a carpenter, are you?Carpenter: That’s right, that’s what I do. Interviewer: How long have you been doing it?Carpenter: Ten years. Interviewer: Great, that’s good. Now, I have a few technical questions to ask you to see if you’re a fit for our team. OK?Carpenter: Sure, that’d…

There are lots of blogs and anecdotes on (a) how to build a successful SaaS company and (b) what a successful SaaS company looks like. Yesterday’s post by Neeraj Agrawal from Battery Ventures titled T

Links are broken. These three alternatives have improved our users’ reading experience. It’s all about focus, relevance and context Published in The Correspondent · 8 min read · Jan 26, 2015 -- At De

Last week Uber revealed another way the ridesharing service is revolutionizing travel: Cities that use Uber see a reduction in drunk driving accidents among young people, a company report showed. "Whe

3 min read · Jan 29, 2015 -- Update: I shut down Composed in 2016. It was a fun experiment. Email is likely the most successful mass-communication scheme created, but has resulted in a spam problem. I

Marco.org: → Overcast’s Smart Speed vs. Real Time http://t.co/DqEeqI5Rki

Sam Machkovech One of my Ars colleagues hadn't yet touched the Pono Player—the Neil Young-championed portable music player, nearly one year out of its successful Kickstarter and finally ready to make

In the eight years since Apple introduced the iPhone, traditional business and industry analysis has failed miserably at predicting Apple's approach to technology. Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery

Medium: “Last decade everyone wanted to be a lawyer. Me too. It was the new doctor then, the old programmer now.” —@30Skulls https://t.co/4zhJIuREcH

$18 billion . Profit. One quarter. Pure insanity. How insane? It’s the highest earnings for a company in a quarter… ever . And it sets Apple up to post the most earnings for a company in a year… ever

As the snow settles from the Blizzard of 2015, that wasn’t (at least in New York, New England is another story) it’s becoming clear that Monday night’s historic shutdown of the New York City Subway sy

“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “Dear @SlackHQ, I love you. Yours, Dan” “@SlackHQ YOU COMPLETE ME” You’ve probably heard about Slack’s exponential growth. And you may have rea

How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW) Published in The Message · 15 min read · Jan 21, 2015 -- #BreakTheInternet? On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightli

President Obama’s State of the Union Address — Remarks As Prepared for Delivery 28 min read · Jan 21, 2015 -- There is a ritual on State of the Union night in Washington. A little before the address,

This is HMS Dreadnought. It was launched by the Royal Navy in 1906 and was the first modern battleship, such that all previous battleships are known retrospectively as 'pre-dreadnought'. Amongst other

Economics Economics Indicators Central Banks Jobs Trade Tax & Spend Inflation & Prices Economics Colombia Finance Ministry, Business Groups Make Rare Joint Plea for Interest Rate Cuts Inflation & Pric

In the tech industry, alcohol is currency. It’s used to grow event attendance, to bribe participants, to reward employees and community members. Informal interviews are conducted in bars, to see if po

This week was a huge one for technology at the Supreme Court. The Court issued three opinions — Riley v. California, United States v. Wurie, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo — that t

I didn’t go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook. I kno

Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…

Jared Sinclair: Marketing Costs and Overcast’s Sales Numbers - Marco Arment has published profit and loss numbers for his... http://t.co/vDakNR0ds2

8 min read · Dec 3, 2014 -- The advice come from “Zero to One” book. This article is a short summary of it. The first team Thiel built has become known in Silicon Valley as the “PayPal Mafia” because

Rap Genius co-founder Tom Lehman Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch On Monday, we learned that Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker's pop-music critic, was leaving the magazine to become executive edi

It got into the teens in northern New Jersey this week, or by my own personal standards, a windchill of Are You Frigging Kidding Me? Which is when I remembered my own wind-chill repellant, a piece of

Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jan 12, 2015 -- Over the last few days, dozens of people have sent me a link to Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen.” Inc

As far as hype goes, Jet.com is near the top in the e-commerce industry right now. Founded by the guy behind Diapers.com, the company has raised $80 million in investments , and it hasn’t even launche

ohn Ulan, University of Alberta Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today. Scientists have designed a computer program, named Cepheu

I absolutely loved this New York Times column which lamented the world of apps, where we don’t have the capability to link to content anymore: Unlike web pages, mobile apps do not have links. They do

I Am Not Charlie Hebdo The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical