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U.S. The morning light was just breaking over Washington, D.C. At the White House, the early cleaning shift was already on the job. As Avril Haines walked through the quiet, darkened halls, she smiled
Tumblr founder David Karp lavished praise on the staff of Storyboard, the editorial project his blogging service launched last year.…Then Karp mentioned that he’d fired them. — Businessweek [ Written
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Y ou can learn a lot about the way the movie industry works in a given moment by looking at its successes (whether accidental or engineered), but often you can learn even more by looking at its failur
I promised myself I wouldn’t get involved in the whole debate about Adria Richards, but as it drags on and more and more articles are written about it, I find myself troubled by the extent of the pola
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Timo Arnall Films About A selection of recent articles on ‘invisible design’ and the disappearance of UI. ‘ The best design is invisible ‘ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. The images ab
THE ELEVATOR DOOR SLIDES OPEN AND JESS slides in, looking slightly rumpled. Tara sizes her up. "Didn't get much sleep last night?" "You can tell?" "Well, you're wearing the same clothes as yesterday."
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View a larger version of the above image Published in the March 2013 issue Sitting at the bar on a weekday afternoon at Hank's, drinking with the live-alone old men, the idled workers, the folks who j
At the Old Pro in Palo Alto, Campbell cusses up a storm in his huddles with Silicon Valley titans, nursing a Bud Light and talking shop. Bill Campbell Management lessons from the Coach's playbook The
Modern ketchup has its roots in—you guessed it—Chinese fish sauce Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Fast food is America’s signature export, and one of its most pervasive: Every day another few outlets open in Europe or Asia, spreading the distinctively American diet to the world. It’s ironic,…
Fierce rivals have joined forces in the race to teleport information to and from space. Three years ago, Jian-Wei Pan brought a bit of Star Trek to the Great Wall of China. From a site near the base o
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Under Armour announces about 50 corporate layoffs Under Armour has cut about 50 corporate positions across several departments, the Baltimore-based sports apparel maker said Thursday. June 22, 2023
This is the second of six posts about the present . Caveat lector. “The explosion of the automaton’s popularity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — with stories such as E. A. Hoffman’s “The S
THE four giants of the internet age—Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon—are extraordinary creatures. Never before has the world seen firms grow so fast or spread their tentacles so widely. Apple has be
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Squint all you want. It’s hard to find anything to cheer in the most recent round of venture capital data. VC fundraising is down. The amount invested is down. The number of folks investing in venture
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Most people who have been assigned the unfortunate task of managing programmers have no idea how to motivate them. They believe that the small perks (such as foosball tables) and bonuses that work in more relaxed settings will compensate for more severe hindrances…
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