Life After Brooklyn Even long-time Brooklynites are finding themselves priced out of the hippest neighborhoods. Do they look elsewhere, move further into Brooklyn or swallow the rising costs? Credit..

You’re a young Israeli man named Meir Bryskman. It’s a cool October night in 2010, and you’ve just stepped off a bus in downtown Lakewood, New Jersey. Pulling your dark overcoat across your chest, you

Teens are the best at Twitter. No matter what I tweet, I know that they will always be so much better at it than I am. When I was a teen 100 years ago, I would do the cool things teens do now (hilario

Construction by Stephen Doyle I n the 92 years since Henry Luce co-founded Time Inc., there have been just seven journalists to hold the title of editor-in-chief. More people have walked on the moon t

It was a gift, the way he could get bad guys to open up. "Really good detectives," he said once, "are born with this sixth sense, that crystal ball in their stomach. It’s having the ability to get ins

A New Take on Editorial & Discovery One of the original inspirations for starting Oyster was to reimagine bookstore browsing for a digital device. Paraphrased from my notes, shortly after starting Oys

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You’re greeted at the pearly gates to heaven by St. Peter who asks where you’d like to spend eternity. “Well, heaven of course!” you say. Peter replies: “You have to check out hell just to see what yo

That’s how it looked back in 1859, according to Scientific American. Published in The Message · 6 min read · May 22, 2014 -- Let’s take a trip back to 1859, when our mental environment faced a dire ne

An Apple wearable nears, it seems . So that leads to the inevitable next question: how much will it cost? Naturally, whispers of would-be price-points have appeared as well. And perhaps unsurprisingly

It was late afternoon in Dallas, Texas, I was walking down the loading bridge to the plane… and frankly, I had a bit of pep in my step. I was here by way of Minneapolis, on a connecting flight to Port

That’s where venture capital—ever evolving—is headed. As Mark Suster pointed out last week , the venture capital landscape has become increasingly bifurcated. Seed funds are springing up everywhere, r

I consider "tourist" to be the filthiest of words. It's the curse I grumble when caught behind pedestrians walking without purpose on big-city sidewalks. But I differentiate between explorer and touri

New research looks at who, exactly, keeps posting those public declarations of love on your newsfeed.

Published in Matter · 4 min read · Aug 24, 2014 -- $2,000,000,000 in the bank —thanks to military victories in the past few months. ISIS has become the most well-funded terrorist group in the world IS

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Photo illustration by Shiva Kilaru/IFTTT One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet. Now it has the money to try to make it happen. The start-up, called IFTTT (prono

Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience. Published in Zachary Hamed · 5 min read · Aug 28, 2014 -- Every so often, an app comes along that just completely understands t

The third major release of Quotebook is called Quotebook 3. Not Quotebook 3.0. Not Quotebook 3.0.0.0.0. Not Quotebook 17.43.0. Quotebook 3. Why? Because the details matter. Now, you may have already r

Jonnie Hallman: After reading that post on best practices for APIs, I disagree with a few things. This post is better: http://t.co/tLssDDnIch

Yesterday we released Hyperlapse from Instagram—a new app that lets you capture and share moving time lapse videos. Time lapse photography is a technique in which frames are played back at a much fast

Engineering 7 min read Four steps to building engaged engineering teams Engaged teams are the backbone of a healthy organization. Here are four lessons I’ve learned the hard way on about how to build

Uber is arming teams of independent contractors with burner phones and credit cards as part of its sophisticated effort to undermine Lyft and other competitors. Interviews with current and former cont

The recent tensions in Ferguson, Missouri has left the country deeply disturbed. Many of us have strong opinions about what went wrong. For others, the root grievance is more about misguided policies

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. In retrospect I lost a lot of future gains by cashing out t

It’s that time of year again. Summer is over for most people and has just begun for San Francisco. And this week, the city becomes emptier than a VC parking lot at 5 p.m. as many of SF’s denizens head

San Francisco Airport is testing out location-aware beacons to help visually-impaired people navigate around one of its newest terminals, a program it could roll out to the rest of the airport if succ

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I fund young companies. I've funded companies that everyone has wanted to fund, and companies that not many people had heard of yet. I've funded men and women, first time founders and repeat founders. Enterprise ventures and consumer businesses.

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Published in the September 2014 issue The use of the word bro is reaching epidemic levels. Now, after The Fast and the Furious and How I Met Your Mother and Breaking Bad, if a show contains more than

For those of us with a fondness for profanity, testing the bounds of cursing in the workplace can feel at once satisfying—and fucking terrifying. But fear not, there’s reason to believe that indulging

In the mid 1990s, when America Online was synonymous with the web, the Internet had not yet achieved its destiny as a place where people gather to share memes, troll articles written by members of an opposing political party, and pursue the Sisyphean goal of inbox zero.

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Later today, Y Combinator will host its demo day for the summer 2014 batch. I know exactly what those founders are feeling, because I was in the exact same position five years ago, when my co-founder

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