Colleen, an associate director at a large pharmaceutical company, daydreamed about getting married on a beach. By the time she began planning her own ceremony in 2012, she’d been to her fair share of
How Slack built a well loved product going against Peter Thiel and app fashion Published in Ben and Dion · 4 min read · Dec 5, 2014 -- I enjoy watching companies do fantastically well against the grai
For many coming to New York City, the available entry is the Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT). However, if a traveler seeks the charm of a grand entrance, they will be greatly disappointed. The PABT
This was originally written on December 2, 2014 and published on Hatch, our internal version of Medium. Read more posts published on Hatch at Inside Medium . I just finished reading The Life-Changing
Wildcard launched our first product a few weeks ago - a card-based mobile browser. It’s a new way of browsing the internet on your smart phone, and it’s just the beginning. A group of incredibly talented people came together, designed and built the app over the past 12 months. I want to share a few…
Published in Happy Highlighting · 3 min read · Dec 4, 2014 -- With Highly, our tender young product for sharing anything you read online, we replace hyperlinks with something we think is better — high
In one of my first reviews with Mark at Facebook, I got into a constructive but passionate debate with Sheryl Sandberg. It was a quintessential corporate dilemma where the best decision for the product may not be the best decision for the company. At the time, I just couldn’t understand her…
Barry Nolan Dec 2, 2014 This Steve Jobs quote on problem solving jumps to mind. I’ve been grinding for three years. I’m acutely aware that there’s a thin line between obsession and delusion. Twain Twa
Russian tech giant Yandex has launched a refreshed version of its Chromium-based browser that’s been designed to make the browser itself feel less visible to web users. Where it is visible, such as th
Login attempts fail because computer users can't remember their email or didn'tinput the right password. Most websites on the Internet won't tell you whichone is actually incorrect. Amazon: Shoprunner
Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I program slowly and thoughtfully.
Part I | Part II | Part III When you examine the 19th century pattern of transformation of an entrepreneurial class into a labor class, which we covered in Part I , the conclusion is obvious: a labor
Part I | Part II | Part III For the last few months, I've been cautiously testing a radical-sounding hypothesis on smart people: entrepreneurs are the new labor . Or to put it in a more useful way, th
7 min read · Sep 28, 2014 -- A self-examination guide for Seed and Series A startups While Bill Gurley’s comments about burn rates (tl;dr he’s concerned they are getting dangerously high) are geared t
We all know that teen-parent relations can be a tricky business. Now neuroscientists from several leading US universities think they’ve found some new brain evidence that helps explain why. The group
4 min read · Nov 24, 2014 -- Image from: ThisAmericanLife.org I’m bullish when it comes to the business of podcasting. I’m not alone, as evidenced by articles explaining why podcasting is surging, lik
PICTURE a heroin addict. “A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing houses to feed his addiction,” is what many people might imagine, believes Cynthia Scudo. That image may have b
DocuSign just launched “The New Experience” and it copies the HelloSign user experience. We (HelloSign) implemented the page above (left) on April 14, 2013. DocuSign implemented the above page (ri
Don't miss Brandweek , Adweek's ultimate experience for marketers, September 11-14 in Miami. Connect with peers and gain insights and inspiration from top brand marketers and industry icons at Glossie
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Handling HBase , with Grace. 6 min read · Nov 7, 2014 -- Last week we got notice from Amazon that one of our critical AWS machines needs a maintenance restart. It hosted some important databases, incl
The latest Uber "scandal" makes a few things clear, to me at least. The tech industry needs to change, to adjust to the reality that it's no longer a startup industry. Our products are used everywhere
At the urging of several commenters , I switched back to the normal Chrome build, and trashed the Canary build. However I wasn't running Canary because I wanted to be bleeding edge, quite the opposite
Media BuzzFeed’s latest traffic trick: The ‘social URL’ November 21, 2014 • 3 min read • By Digiday BuzzFeed may already be king when it comes to getting people to share its posts, but that’s not stop
My current project is first time I've managed other people directly. But I'm still a software engineer, so my responsibilities are: Write code Design systems Lead our engineering team to get things do
Published in Let’s Make Things · 2 min read · Nov 21, 2014 -- I love Oyster. It lives on my homescreen. Since I signed up, I have started reading more books. This is wonderful. There is, however, one
Announcing the Estimote Platform and all-new fleet management software The power of proximity and the ability to make context actionable cannot be overstated. We’re only just scratching the surface of
How To Predict WhatsApp Features 2 min read · Nov 18, 2014 -- A great thing about building Telegram is that you can force bigger apps to improve their products. And also predict their actions. Since w
Posted November 18, 2014 “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx, 1848 Karl Marx postulated that the worker would stand on the production line and become alie
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt , a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Mich
Latest TCBI data TCBI 1 mo 1 yr TechCrunch has established itself as a leading resource for startup-related news, so I thought it would be fun to analyze every TechCrunch headline to see what we might
At the outset of Serial , the popular new podcast from This American Life , host Sarah Koenig describes the tale of Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed as a "Shakespearean mash-up." The true story of the 1999
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million to smear journalists who have criticized the mul
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