Sticky TOC engaged! Do not remove this! History has proven that tossing out a familiar platform that prints money for your business and starting anew isn't easy: just ask Apple and Microsoft, whose ne
Food Trucks in Paris? U.S. Cuisine Finds Open Minds, and Mouths Jordan Feilders just opened Cantine California, one of the first food trucks in Paris to offer upscale versions of American food. PARIS
Google office, Zurich by Abe Walker Abstract This article takes as its central object of study Google’s innovative time off program, colloquially known as ‘20 Percent Time’. This program represents a
Fresno was a mistake from the beginning. I was five when we moved there. My dad and I drove from Texas in a rented Ryder truck; we finally pulled off the highway in a dingy business district north of
If Steve Jobs’s life were staged as an opera, it would be a tragedy in three acts. And the titles would go something like this: Act I– The Founding of Apple Computer and the Invention of the PC Indust
Photo: Paul Sakuma/AP/Corbis. Illustration by Steven Noble. If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO. The deal could value the com
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Credit... Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York
Stay on Top of Emerging Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What shou
It's natural to look across the ocean for inspiration. But restaurants in the United States often leave out two crucial ingredients: integrity and tradition. A platter at NOMA, a much-emulated restaur
The Trap Of Marginal Thinking In the late 1990s, Blockbuster dominated the movie rental industry in the United States. It had stores all over the country, a significant size advantage, and what appear
During the first quarter of 2012 we’ve added more structure to our processes at Family Records, helping us increase efficiency, and help us be more effective as our platform grows. It’s a constant learning process. Through conversations with peers and mentors, reading up on companies we love and…
It’s painful, hard, and often time-consuming to restart when you’re already done, but you can’t argue with the results. Both Apple and Nintendo create some of the best, most inspired design out there.
Probably everyone reading this has heard “functional programming” put forth as something that is supposed to bring benefits to software development, or even heard it touted as a silver bullet. However, a trip to Wikipedia for some more information can be initially off-putting, with early references…
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Richard Perry/The New York Times The gears of Silicon Valley continue to mesh and turn because of money, not necessarily technological innovations. And there are certain things about that money machin
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Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 8th November 2011 If wealth was the inevitable result of hard wo
It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us laggards onto the new theme. I’
John Lanchester quoting Karl Marx (but substituting the word capitalism for the bourgeoisie) in his excellent essay on “Marx at 193,” which I came to via Irredenta. I’m familiar with Marx’s errors, particularly his anthropologically- and morally-confused prescriptions and his overestimation of…
Kenyatta Cheese spoke at our Entrepreneurial Design class last week. He spoke at length about the emergence of social networks and the virality of memes. The internet is a platform for participatory m
32 Under 32: Kyle Thomas September 1st, 2016 / We're always trying to bring you more, better content here at the SF Egotist, so here's one more 32 Under 32 interview for you all. Kyle Thomas is the Lead Developer at April Six and he's our final 32 Under 32 winner for you to get to know. So read this…
For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlinin
In late 1979, a twenty-four-year-old entrepreneur paid a visit to a research center in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC. He was the co-founder of a small computer startup down the road, in Cupertino. His name was Steve Jobs.
Xerox PARC was the innovation arm of the Xerox Corporation. It was, and…
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I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day. Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends. She broadc
As we await the launch of Apple’s latest attempt at creating a credible cloud computing service , an editorial at Ars Technica asks whether Apple can really succeed at this game . Writer Timothy B. Le
We’ve all lived the nightmare. A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he 1 can’t seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when i
Why are many telecommuters most efficient in noisy public places with lots of distractions? It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dr
It’s 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each mornin
More About Ben Ben Horowitz is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and
Here are summaries of the books I’ve written: More Effective Agile: A Roadmap for Software Leaders . This distills my company’s experience working with hundreds of companies into an easy-to-read guide
TECH’S BAD BOYSean Parker, Man of Mystery, in his (rented) five-story Manhattan town house. Sean Parker was sitting in World Civilization class at his Virginia high school when someone brought him a n
I can't tell you how to make the perfect martini. No one can. For the martini is the Rorschach test of cocktails. It is a window into the imbiber's psyche. Shaken or stirred? Olive or twist? These are
We all agree that we want our programs to be simple: in the memorable words attributed to Einstein, “as simple as possible, but no simpler”. Kernighan and Pike’s most recent book, 1999’s The Practice
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