Published August 9, 2018 12:00AM At 3 a.m. on June 10, my brother-in-law Dan and I started walking uphill from the Whitney Portal trailhead. Our goal: the top of California’s 14,494-foot Mount Whitney, three hours north of Los Angeles, at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada. It’s the tallest peak…

Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. Photographer: Mike Kane/Bloomberg Visit the office of Amazon’s head of Devices, Dave Limp, and you may get an offer to look at a piece of corporate history: the original short documents drafted by an internal team in 2011 to propose the…

It hasn’t been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celebrated stockpicker in the UK, but recently his funds have been languishing. Piling on the woes,…

Last October, we announced that we'd partnered with Kickstarter to start a new project to succeed Drip, their subscription platform for independent artists. Unfortunately, we’ve decided to cancel the project, and wanted to talk a little about why. In the seven months since the announcement, we’d…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Nicola Korzenko 3 min read· May 7, 2019 -- We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of Podfund. Jake Shapiro has written an excellent post outlining our inspiration and vision, so I thought I’d tell you a little bit about me, why I’m so ecstatic…

Now IG wants your credit card info, too: In a move that’s been long coming, the social platform is launching a feature that lets users immediately buy products through the app By • - Instagram has long been an unofficial shopping platform, where people (i.e., me) can purchase useless stuff (i.e.,…

Almost as suddenly as the electric rent-a-scooters appeared, everyone had an opinion about them. They began clogging sidewalks across the Bay Area in late 2017 ($1 to start!) as brands with four-letter names like Bird and Lime fought for dominance in the latest vampiric startup scheme. Folks were…

Whether you’re hiring your first or hundredth engineer, you can build a hiring pipeline to discover, interview, and recruit quality candidates at scale. We’re here to help with every step: Background on the current engineering landscape How to build your employer brand How to source top engineers…

I always liked writing. In the fifth grade, I wrote a dark, brooding story about a rat in a dungeon. My teacher liked it so much she read it in front of the class. At first I was embarrassed, but afterward, I felt validated. Being affirmed, publicly, about my abilities made me want to write more. By…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Geoff Teehan 11 min read· Feb 24, 2016 -- I come to Facebook to share all kinds of things with people I care about — from celebratory posts about practicing yoga for 60 days straight, to mourning the loss of a parent. Those same people who connect with…

Colin Kroll, a college dropout turned startup millionaire, drifted through his company’s holiday party at Gran Morsi, a cozy Italian restaurant in downtown Manhattan. Dressed in a gray sweater and jeans, he chatted up employees and their plus ones. When one of his engineers offered to get Mr. Kroll…

Jonathan Swanson 11 min read· Jan 16, 2019 -- We recently celebrated a decade (!) of building Thumbtack so I’m sharing a few hard-fought lessons from growing a startup to $1B. To set some context… A decade ago: Thumbtack had no customers, no product, no money. Our first “office” was a house, and I…

In August, an analyst for a little-known U.S. startup called NewsGuard tried to contact the editors of the Daily Mail Online, the U.K.-based news and celebrity-gossip site that ranks as one of the internet’s most-read publishers. NewsGuard staff called twice and emailed twice, asking questions about…

If you remove the societal impact, just for a moment, the story of publishers’ demise — first newspapers, and now digital-only companies like BuzzFeed and Huffington Post, which both announced significant layoffs last week — is rather banal: infinite competition combined with an inferior product…

Brad Feld 2 min read· Jan 16, 2019 -- Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. The Techstars Studio will then…

Feedback, performance reviews, appraisals. A collective shiver just went down all of your spines. These words are so highly politicized in today's work environments it's no wonder people can't stand them. For many years I too dreaded the idea of getting critical feedback. I sought recognition and…

Getty Images A conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey can be incredibly disorienting. Not because he’s particularly clever or thought-provoking, but because he sounds like he should be. He takes long pauses before he speaks. He furrows his brow, setting you up for a considered response from the…

There’s this great moment in the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) when the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have n

Social platforms want to run the world. But look how they treat your email. Dec. 24, 2018 See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google A fellow worker (at a store…

Be careful not to throw your weight around without knowing it. Yesterday I was in a board meeting for a company I advise. Great group, strong business, profitable, all the good stuff. But the owner-CEO was stuck. He felt like he’d laid out a pretty clear vision and direction, but people’s priorities…

I’ve been pestering Apple for years publicly and privately about the manipulation and outright scams going on in the App Store. Apple has made some progress here and there, but overall Apple’s strictn

Weekend Investor The father of the index fund says it’s probably only a matter of time before they own half of all U.S. stocks; ‘I do not believe that such concentration would serve the national inter

Simon Landrein When Microsoft leapfrogged Apple last month to become the world’s most valuable company, the symbolism was rich, given the pair’s i... Already a subscriber? Sign In

For the system at work, I am on call one week every seven weeks. For most of the past ten years, I have been on organized on call rotations for the systems I have been developing. I think being on call is a logical way of taking responsibility for your work. You also learn a lot from it. However, it…

Documenting Social History Welcome to the historical archive of the streaking phenomenon. Preserving verified accounts and artifacts from Campuses, Festivals, and Recreational venues worldwide. DISCLAIMER & ARCHIVAL POLICY Streaking.App is an educational and historical repository. We exist solely to…

Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who, along with three other plaintiffs, filed a class action lawsuit alleging that App Store customers have been overcharged for iOS apps, thanks to Apple’s 30% commission that…

More than graphic design, typography is an expression of technology, precision and good order. Typography is no longer concerned with meeting the lofty and difficult demands of art but with satisfying, formally and functionally, the everyday requirements of a craft. ― Emil Ruder[1] For most of the…

Facebook has gone on the attack as one scandal after another — Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — has led to a congressional and consumer backlash.Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives…

December 8, 2012 To climb or not to climb Cotopaxi, that has been our question. Arriving to the city of Latacunga, gateway to Ecuador’s greatest climbing and high mountain hiking opportunities, we decided to bite the big-bad-cost-bullet for our first attempt at real mountaineering. While Jeremy and…

Facebook, believe it or not, has actually made virtual reality better, at least from one perspective. My first VR device was PlayStation VR, and the calculus was straightforward: I owned a PS4 and did not own a Windows PC, which means I had a device that was compatible with the PlayStation VR and…

I’ve long believed that the design of your software has a profound impact on how users behave within your software. But there are two sides to this story: Encouraging the “right” things by making those things intentionally easy to do.Discouraging the “wrong” things by making those things…

With Discourse, it was clear that we needed to totally reboot the software to create next-generation forum software. But code is only part of the story. Any reasonable attempt at delivering a Civilized Discourse Construction Kit has to provide a safe, simple default set of guidelines for civilized…

What are the real world consequences to signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account through Tor and spewing hate toward other human beings? Facebook reviewed the comment I reported and found it doesn’t violate their Community Standards. – Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) October 15, 2014 As far as I can…

One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick: Here is something I’ve never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood: The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the content. I ultimately don’t care how smart or funny…

Gates describes the moment Allen showed him a new computer called the Altair 8800, which marked the end of Gates’s college career and the beginning of Microsoft Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1983 just after completing MS-DOS for the Tandy laptop and signing a contract to write…

The kingdom is now the largest single investor for U.S. startups, an unsettling fact for Silicon Valley Turkish officials say a team of alleged Saudi assassins apprehended and likely killed a Saudi journalist in Istanbul. The Saudis have denied any involvement but Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen…

Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ program shouldn’t be used as a tool for mass surveillance 4 min read· Oct 16, 2018 -- Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty The authenticity of the following anonymous op-ed has been verified

J F C Fuller did not invent the tank. That distinction should probably fall to E L de Mole, an Australian who approached the British war office in 1912 with a design that was — in the words of historians Kenneth Macksey and John Batchelor — “so convincingly similar to those which finally went into…