First impressions last a lifetime, goes the adage. You’re going to have to forget your first impressions of the iPad to understand the iPad Pro. When Apple introduced the original iPad in 2010, it was
9 min read · Nov 1, 2015 -- You’ve heard of Amazon, right? Twitter? Google? Basically every major tech-powered industry in America that politicians now point to when they talk about American ingenuity
The fundamental goal I have for a wallet via its design is that it prevents me from randomly collecting crap. Years of folding leather wallets with myriad pockets and flaps all yielded precisely the s
October 2015 Here's a simple trick for getting more people to read what youwrite: write in spoken language. Something comes over most people when they start writing. They writein a different language
Economic segregation has some obvious consequences for how we live. It means that poor and rich children attend different schools , that their parents shop in different stores, that their families rel
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this w
In June 2012, while working at CNN.com , I was tasked with designing the user experience of election night. The next five months of my life would be dedicated to that single night—but success to me ha
The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself. Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office. Yes,
Published in Signal v. Noise · 3 min read · Oct 27, 2015 -- A couple of years ago, I did an experiment: I kicked sugar for three months. I’d have whatever naturally occurred in foods, but I wouldn’t e
Ben Schippers Contributor Ben Schippers is a co-founder of HappyFunCorp . More posts by this contributor A modest proposal to make apps suck less Tesla, a great family brand Why do engineers build ugl
Twenty years ago, in the San Francisco neighborhood then called Multimedia Gulch , a state-of-the-art server from Sun Microsystems began to run a program that would one day lead to more than a million
Marketing PepsiCo Launched Two Consumer Ecommerce Sites in 30 Days — Here’s What We Can Learn From It With Americans stuck at home and relying on digital channels to buy staple products, PepsiCo leane
Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press Peyton Manning threw 28 interceptions during his rookie season. Since then, Manning has turning into a Hall of Fame quarterback but also acted as a dismissal about
Enlarge / Putting El Capitan through its paces on a wide range of hardware. Andrew Cunningham Poor OS X can't get no respect. Apple's Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the iPhone
Welcome to Football 101, a series intended to help you, the fan, better understand some common NFL and college tactics so when you see a long run or a pick-six, you’ll have a better grasp of how and w
The Bengals ' Margus Hunt and the Saints ' Obum Gwacham are two defensive ends clinging at the margins of the NFL. Neither of them even played football until they went to college. I had never heard of
Many people look at the “s” model of the iPhone as a less significant release than the years Apple does a full design change, but that’s just not the case. This year’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is full of
“I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Life seems harsh. And cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: ‘Treatment is simple. The great clown – Pagliacci –
The other day, Cris Collinsworth, color commentator for NBC Sunday Night Football , was sitting in a cramped room in his basement in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. In a light-blue Polo and slip-on shoes, he g
In a wide-ranging discussion, Bernie Sanders discusses his views on socialism, single payer, open borders, Zionism, and more with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Table of contents below: 0:00 – Social
David Loftesness is now the head of engineering at eero and the co-author of Scaling Teams . There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisi
Sometime in the late 1970s, after he’d divorced his college sweetheart, had a kid with another woman, lost four statewide elections, and been evicted from his home on Maple Street in Burlington, Vermo
Jon Premosch For Buzzfeed News Tim Cook is twisted sideways in the deep passenger-side backseat of a black Cadillac Escalade, rolling through Manhattan from the Flatiron district up to the company's f
Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical, I mean the diagnosis that most publishers will soon be
I’m disgusted by this story, reported by the Dallas Morning News tonight . A 14-year-old high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed… Do I need to fill in the details? I’m outraged about a story involvin
Thom Holwerda posted a link on OSNews to my comments about Apple effectively having veto power over new web technologies. He didn’t add much commentary, other than: What could possibly go wrong . I’ll
Home iOS After the radical redesign of iOS 7, which gave us a cleaner, more flexible experience, and the functional revolution of iOS 8, which extended and continued that experience between apps and d
Published in Personal Growth · 8 min read · Sep 8, 2015 -- Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and
No argument here: Jony Ive has produced some of the best industrial design in the history of consumer products. He’s done it by cutting out all the extraneous parts. By eliminating edges, by smoothing
1. One of my earliest memories is of a burned-down Wendy's. My dad was a regional manager and had to take me because, through some confluence of parental circumstances, he ended up a.) alone with me w
accelerator (n.): An institution connecting college dropouts with wealthy investors eager to lose money. actually, (intr.): A disorder in the male genome that causes the vocal cords to spasm whenever
“Mankind faces a crossroads,” declared Woody Allen. “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” The point is
Here's my own list of the interesting stuff announced during this year's WWDC, collected from the keynotes, various Apple docs, blog posts and tweets. If you're planning to watch the videos, I really
We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps , and so many feel like a waste of time. There’s plenty of advice out there on how t
A couple weeks ago, I was debating what I was going to talk about in this sermon. I told Pastor Kelly Ryan I had great reservations talking about the one topic that I think about every single day. Then, a terrorist massacred nine innocent people in…
Over the span of a few years, we interviewed 30 middle-class, suburban drug dealers in Atlanta, Georgia, hoping to gain access to the inner workings of this subculture. Drug dealing has inherent dange
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