I first met Mark Zuckerberg in March 2006. At the time, I was the lead tech writer at Newsweek and was working on a story about what we were calling Web 2.0—the notion that the next stage of the internet would be a joyful, participatory creation of individuals. I'd heard about a social networking…

A 14-year-old in Atlanta created one of the biggest dances on the internet. But nobody really knows that. Jalaiah Harmon, 14, performing the Renegade, a dance she created that has blown up on the internet.Credit...Jill Frank for The New York Times Published Feb. 13, 2020Updated Aug. 28, 2021 See…

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Julie Zhuo 3 min read· Mar 28, 2014 -- Earlier today, Dustin Curtis wrote a post about the recent Facebook desktop redesign. Dustin makes a few assumptions about the rationale behind the redesign, including how some of the beauty and cleanliness of the initial version tested a year ago was discarded…

Agile Lite: Agile without all the burnout "Agile software development" is a great idea that's been overcomplicated by the publishing and consulting industries. Agile Lite is an attempt to simplify the situation. You do not need a book or a workshop to explain Agile Lite. You just need a text file…

Here’s a fun, personal story about what can go wrong in an otherwise fine UI when things are redesigned. My wife typically only charges her phone when she’s at her desk during the day. She doesn’t leave it plugged in overnight, which means iOS’s software update never happens automatically for her.…

Nothing gets an investor’s heart racing like the phrase “software margins.” It’s shorthand for the concept than businesses which are primarily bits (not atoms) have some very attractive characteristics: fixed development costs, economies of scale in deployment & servicing, and “winner take most”…

Career coaching by August 11, 2015 Flashpop/Getty Images Over the years, I’ve asked hundreds of executive students what skills they believe are essential for leaders. “The ability to give tough feedback” comes up frequently. But what exactly is “tough feedback”? The phrase connotes bad news, like…

No Mercy/No Malice If it does, the stock will shed 30%+ in the first year Scott Galloway 5 min read· Jan 22, 2020 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size In 2015, one of my students asked me to invest in his business. He was sourcing cotton in Egypt, milling it in Israel, and then landing…

Pandemics China James Palmer January 27, 2020, 6:40 PM As news of the novel coronavirus spread online, one video became emblematic of its claimed origin: It showed a young Chinese woman, supposedly in Wuhan, biting into a virtually whole bat as she held the creature up with chopsticks. Media outlets…

Kindle competition is coming soon maff 4 min read· Jan 4, 2020 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo: NurPhoto/Getty Images The Kindle has hardly changed in almost a decade. Sure, it’s had some incremental improvements — slightly nicer e-ink screen, waterproofing, OS tweaks,…

The first American automobile maker, Duryea Motor Wagon Company, was founded in 1895; 34 more auto-makers would be founded in the U.S. in the following five years.1 Then, an explosion: an incredible 233 additional automobile makers were founded in the first decade of the 20th century, and a further…

In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth said he “desperately” wanted the president to lose. But, he said, the company should avoid hurting Mr. Trump’s campaign. Andrew Bosworth, who leads Facebook’s virtual and augmented reality division, warned employees in a memo not “to use the tools available to us…

It seems as though the opposite of “careless” ought to be “careful.” That the best way to avoid avoidable errors is to try harder, to put more care into the work. This means that if surgeons were more careful, there would be fewer errors. And that so many of the mistakes that mess things up would go…

Jon Bell 3 min read· Apr 29, 2013 -- I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions…

I finished reading The Man Who Solved the Market this past weekend about Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies, and the quant revolution. The book was alright, but the story of Rentech is remarkable, including annualized returns of 66% since 1988 and over $100B of profits. The thing that really stuck…

It was morning and bright, and Reinhard Grubhofer, depleted and dehydrated, hoisted his body over a crest and rose uneasily. There, from the summit of Mount Everest, he could see everything. How the earth curved gorgeously in all direction; how wisps of clouds sailed beneath his boots. The view—out…

Mark Zuckerberg can’t be understood in terms of partisan politics. It’s all about growth. Oct. 25, 2019 The Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de…

You guys, what’s going on? How come we routinely say “guys” or “you guys” when talking to a group of two or more? Whenever we speak or write, we are automatically voting just by choosing which words to use. Every sentence of this entire column, for example, casts votes for the words I’m using. This…

The plan was to drink until the pain over. But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover? —Kanye West, “Dark Fantasy” When you found a company, it tends to get wired into your nervous system. I used to become physically ill whenever there was something wrong in the company — even if I didn’t know what…

On Monday of this week the Business Roundtable, an organization which “represents chief executive officers (CEOs) of America’s leading companies,” published a new statement on the purpose of a corpora

Profiles June 17, 2013 Ittetsu Nemoto near his temple, in Gifu prefecture. Japan’s suicide rate is nearly twice that of the United States.Photograph by Pari Dukovic From time to time, Ittetsu Nemoto gets a group of suicidal people together to visit popular suicide spots, of which there are many in…

If you spend much time out in nature, you know how to recognize the subtle and unsubtle signs of an ecosystem in distress. It could be a forest that’s eerily silent where you should hear birds and insects. It could look like an invasive species run amok: leaping Asian carp in the lower Mississippi…

Anthony Levandowski, who was a star engineer at Google and Uber specializing in self-driving technologies, with his lawyer Miles Ehrlich on Tuesday in San Jose.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthony Levandowski was once one of Silicon Valley’s most sought after…

Farhad Manjoo, in the New York Times, ran an experiment on themself: Earlier this year, an editor working on The Times’s Privacy Project asked me whether I’d be interested in having all my digital activity tracked, examined in meticulous detail and then published — you know, for journalism…I had to…

“The status quo on our streets today is simply unacceptable, and we’re not going to stand for it,” Mayor Mark Farrell said the other day as he stood on Natoma Street to unveil his new needle cleanup t

Many describe Product Hunt as the place to see what's next in tech. Every day startups and makers launch their latest creation on the site, introducing it to the world for the first time. Like everyone else, I wake up each morning curious, inspired, and sometimes surprised by what I find. People…

awaldstein Mar 4, 2014 Words to the wise Fred.Bore repeating and repeating again. William Mougayar Mar 4, 2014 I have seen VCs push for pro-rata rights on the overall ownership, not just on the round, i.e. if they started at 1% of 5MM, they ask for 1% of $12MM. What are your thoughts on that?…

mobile apps routinely appear first in search results ahead of competitors in its App Store, a powerful advantage that skirts some of the company’s rules on such rankings, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The company’s apps ranked first in more than 60% of basic searches, such as for…

Craig Newmark is a man of quiet contradiction. Wrapped in a sweater the color of hot chocolate, the 66-year-old founder of Craigslist is painfully self-effacing, yet he started a wildly successful online marketplace emblazoned with his name. He deemphasizes his personal wealth, yet knows exactly how…

I First Had Lyme Disease in 2010. I Never Really Got Better. The author has spent a decade fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms — and convincing those who don’t believe him that his illness is real Karl Bode 10 min read· Jun 24, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Karl Bode…

The suggestion that humans will soon set up bustling, long-lasting colonies on Mars is something many of us take for granted. What this lofty vision fails to appreciate, however, are the monumental—if not intractable—challenges awaiting colonists who want to permanently live on Mars. Unless we…

Welcome to geezer town, junior. While researching my recent article, “Age discrimination and Programming Jobs” , I discovered a 1998 Op-Ed piece from The New York Times that cited some startling stati

Sky used technology as a crowbar to build a new TV business. Everything about how it executed that technology had to be good, and by and large it was. The box was good, the UI was good, the truck-rolls were good, and the customer service and experience were good. Unlike American cable subscribers,…

Intro There are many definitions of product market fit: Product market fit is your NPS score Product market fit is when 40% of your users would be “very disappointed” if they no longer have access to your product Product market fit is a feeling You need a good distribution channel to have product…

This article is part of an investigation with Underunderstood, a podcast that explores stories the internet missed. You can subscribe to Underunderstood on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. NEW: As of May 14, 2020, New York City has passed a bill to ban the practice of…