The magazine cover retains its unique cultural power—to amuse, to inform, to agitate, or, as is the case with the forthcoming August 1st issue of Rolling Stone , to enrage. That cover, unveiled on Tue
The International Workingmen's Association 1864 Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charle
Published in I. M. H. O. · 4 min read · Aug 12, 2013 -- We’re in an era on the web I think of as “hyper social.” In their current form, social networks extend our ability to “maintain” relationships.
Shares in the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones peaked in August of 2007, at two hundred and thirty-six dollars. In retrospect, the company was facing an inflection point and was completely una
This week’s Startup Edition question: How did you raise money for your startup? Here’s everything I wish I knew the first time around. In September of 2012, Zapier closed our seed investment round of
Feb 2023 Global Mobile Network Experience Awards 2023 In the fourth Global Mobile Network Experience Awards report, Opensignal once again directly compares operators from around the world to recognize
awaldstein Aug 12, 2013 Last para hit it.No one really knows the spark of where you are going better than you do. But the dynamics of people and orgs is something that has patterns that repeat themsel
Published in I. M. H. O. · 4 min read · Aug 4, 2013 -- I really like GitHub. Who doesn’t? Like many programmers, I will grumble about little things (ahem, how their latest redesign shoved the clone UR
mailchimp.com / wufoo.com Published in Crew Dispatch · 5 min read · Aug 13, 2013 -- We had just gotten out of a meeting with our lead investor. After reviewing our progress for the last few months, so
Google does not give any data on payment trends, but Apple gives enough to estimate that iOS usersspend about a dollar a month on apps and in-app purchases. Android payment levels (both on Google play
One of my favorite phrases is “Do things, tell people”. I came across it inCarl Lange’s eponymous post and could instantly relate. Carl argues — and I wholeheartedly agree — that you need to doonly tw
Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach. —— Jason, an entrepreneur I’ve
Johannes Treitz Apr 24, 2016 · 2 min read Remember the days in college when you learned all about the big Oh!’s and re-implemented all these sort-algorithms for the hundredth time? If you are a web de
There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by reallytalented, experienced people( here and here ). I’dlike to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in thepast four ye
Lost amid much of the rampant speculation that Apple is on the cusp of unveiling a new plastic-bodied lower-priced iPhone “5C” is the simple fact that Apple has offered lower-priced iPhones for severa
On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian poet, philosopher, and musician Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861–August 7
At South By Southwest in March, Google[x]’s “Captain of Moonshots” told an audience that Elon Musk is a “national treasure.” Musk’s brilliance doesn’t come from being the world’s smartest man, said As
Schnail Mail: free real mail for life! 9 Aug, 2013 Introducing our latest startup: Schnail Mail. To know the schnail is to love the schnail. How would you like to send free snail mail for life? Starti
BuzzFeed’s CEO, Jonah Peretti , recently sent out an email to employees and investors summarizing the company’s strategy and progress. I really liked his email so I asked Jonah if I could blog it and
One of the most pernicious problems in a space full of them (K12 CS Ed) is the lack of young women interested in and taking advantage of classes on software engineering. Thankfully there are some peop
Ladar Levison (via Facebook) Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be on
Pocket is a fiendishly addictive metagame for reading that helps you read more than you normally would. But the game makes it difficult to engage deeply with text, and distracts from Pocket’s potentia
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Contributor Contributor More posts by this contributor The dinner that destroyed Gawker Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success” Editor’s note: Ben Horowitz is co-founder and part
American college life is often depicted as a four- (or five-, or six-) year suspension of reality, in which the normal rules of society cease to apply and the nation’s youth indulge their baser instin
What is it like to be a bat? That was the question posed in 1974 by the noted American philosopher Thomas Nagel . Nagel argued that if you were somehow able to transport yourself into the mind of a ba
A couple of weeks ago one of my friends who happens to work in the technology business quipped that these days people simply save things to Pocket (the save to read it later service) and rarely go bac
John Gardi is a tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades currently living in Canada. He garnered himself a slice of internet fame when he made a mock-up for Elon Musk's mysterious Hyperloop transportation system , and Musk himself dubbed it the "best guess" he'd seen yet. Here, he elaborates on that guess,…
Wikipedia The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiro
CNN — Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called “Weed.” The title “Weed” may sound cavalier, but the content is not. I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders,
In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author AlexFedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half tomemorize a seven-digit number and the other half to
2013-08-04 The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is preordained. This neglects the years of toil that ent
Bootstrap in practice: a landing page Aug 4th, 2013 Heads up! 2013-09-10 · Updated to Bootstrap 3.0.0 stable. TL;DR Live Demo Here we go Let’s see how to build a landing page with Bootstrap from scratch. The first step is the good ole “Hello, world!” page. htmlBootstrap In Practice - Landing Page…
In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity Daryl Foriest, director of distribution at the Food Bank’s pantry and soup kitchen in Harlem, was skeptical at first of the Toyota engin
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Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn’t favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012. “We found evolution will punish you if you’r
LAS VEGAS – Researchers have figured out how to leverage the reach of online advertising networks to distribute javascript of their choosing, creating the equivalent of a botnet of ad impressions capa
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