October 27, 2014 #define CTO I joined Stripe as an engineer in 2010. I began by working on the backend infrastructure: designing the server architecture, creating our credit card vault, and producing
5 min read · Oct 16, 2014 -- Home from college one year during spring break, a friend and I drove into the city from Brooklyn one night to hit up a club downtown. Both flat broke at the time, I rememb
History has dubbed you the “Millennials.” You’re part of the first generation to grow up in the digital age. Some of you grew up with cell phones tucked into your book bags, while others can remember
Last year, I had the chance to ask President Obama directly what it is like to be a black president. (Our conversation was off the record, but after this NSA stuff, I’m not sure that matters anymore.) POTUS said that as a black president he has had to concede he is “not allowed to make any sudden…
You don’t have to go on wondering how Amazon’s Fire Phone gambit paid off. The retailer announced its third quarter financial results on Thursday, and it didn’t go well. Amazon lost nearly half a billion dollars in the quarter, and the largest single component of that was the Fire Phone , on which…
Any startup founder knows the pressure of launching first. The belief is that if your competitor beats you to market, untold riches await them… while your company is now a dead duck. This is rarely tr
David Spinks: The "entrepreneurs should solve bigger problems" narrative hasn't felt quite right to me. Enjoyed @rrhoover's take: http://t.co/WHJdU3jmoI
David Barnard: “If you are struggling to identify a job your product does, be very careful. Tech that doesn’t find a job fails.” http://t.co/SPoZKpnuth
The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote. It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Before the battle of Salamis, he was locked in a vigorous debate with a Spartan general about potential strategies for defeating the Persians. Themistocles was clearly in the…
Spritz Inc. Reading is good. So reading faster must be better right? This is the well-meaning logic behind every person who googles “speed reading” and all the recent excitement about the Spritz speed
Managing product development and management in general are ripe with clichés. By definition of course a cliché is something that is true, but unoriginal. I like a good cliché because it reminds you th
Way back in October 2008, my now husband and I went on our first date. On our one year anniversary, his gift to me was a Word doc of all of our text messages since our first date (what he likes to ref
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October 25, 2014 Pocket vs. Instapaper Read it later Everyone has their own routine for keeping track of articles they want to come back to, and these days there are numerous options, most of them foc
In January 2013, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras received an e-mail that would eventually change what the world knew about government surveillance. The e-mail came from Edward Snowden,
Update: I’ve already modified my profile by removing most of the images. Once the last contest is over, I will be removing the rest of the images that don’t suit my brand. I’ve also made a large donat
Why numbering should start at zero To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us a)2 ≤ i < 13b)1 < i ≤ 12c)2 ≤ i ≤ 12d)1
Have you ever noticed apps stuttering as you scroll and swipe around? Tapped a button and watched the entire interface freeze as it tries to react? iOS is well-known for its user experience quality ba
WSJ : Twitter Inc. has a proposition for app makers: Let’s start over. Two years ago, Twitter irked developers with stricter rules around applications that plug into the social-media service. This wee
We are pretty much always looking for new people, what is holding us back from expanding even more rapidly is the time that it takes to get to grips with our codebases and what we do here. But that al
Jonathan Abrams: “Each year, 600k 1st-yr college students take calculus; 250k fail. At $2k/failed-course, that is half-a-billion $” http://t.co/Upyp8MQMwg
The spread of computing to every corner of our physical world doesn’t just mean a proliferation of screens large and small—it also means we’ll soon come to rely on mobile computers with no screens at
Over the weekend I was hit with a deluge of advertising from banks and credit card companies encouraging me to get ready for the wonder that is Apple Pay . It seemed odd to me that big-name financial
We’ve filed our reply brief in the appeal of Smith v. Obama , our case challenging the NSA’s mass telephone records collection on behalf of Idaho nurse Anna Smith. The case will be argued before the N
Mike Stern , Apple User Experience Evangelist in Designing Intuitive User Experiences - 211 WWDC 2014 session (at 31’ 57"): But I feel like I would be remiss If I didn’t use this opportunity to talk with you about hamburger menus . AKA Slide out menus, AKA sidebars, AKA basements, AKA drawers. Now,…
Perhaps the most interesting news about Apple’s new iPad Air 2 tablet is buried at the bottom of one of its marketing pages : It will come pre-installed with a new “Apple SIM” card instead of one from
On Thursday the Guardian published three stories detailing how Whisper, the social media app that claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users , including som
Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss. You
A dark tunnel Dustin Curtis, designer and creator of the Svtble blogging platform , posted an article yesterday entitled Privacy vs. User Experience . In this article, Curtis claims that “Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of…
October 7, 2014 Privacy vs. User Experience Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of every
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