There was a time not so long ago when all of the coffee in the entire United States of America was bad. It only came in giant cans and it was roasted and ground until it tasted like dirt and no one who drank it knew where any of it came from or even cared because it was very cheap and all of the…

The constant question about New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady used to focus on how he compared to his longtime rival, Peyton Manning . Later, it became a worthwhile debate as to where he rank

One evening, while geeking out with my daughters I decided to share a theory I had with them about Star Wars -- specifically Return of the Jedi : Luke Skywalker turned to the Dark Side at the end of t

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments ... before Hollywood agents, reality-show producers, and book publishers began

Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of posts in the Reformed blogosphere related to sanctification and good works. I won’t attempt to survey all the relevant posts, but the main ones inc

Yeah! We’re remote friendly! We got Bob who lives in San Diego, we’re based in San Francisco, and we have a Slack room, and people usually can come in to work at ANY time (between 8am and 9am), but re

Bookmarking Apps and the Wish Economy Diana Kimball Berlin Follow Sep 29, 2015 · 13 min read In July 2014, Alexis Madrigal reported for NPR on the strange case of Pinterest . The visual bookmarking ap

A long time ago, a guy flew a kite in a storm. When lightning struck it, the current traveled down the string of the kite to a key, giving the victim a jolt of electricity. Who was that famous scienti

When the search for your next talented teammate is done and you have the signed offer letter in hand, the hard work of keeping them engaged has just begun. Creating a wonderful remote employee onboard

What no one tells you about the role Rohini Vibha Follow Jan 24, 2014 · 7 min read Is it just me or are there a lot of aspiring product managers out there? Maybe it’s just because I am one myself, but

BY GARY MYERS The following is excerpted from Brady vs. Manning: The Untold Story of the Rivalry that Transformed the NFL , copyright © 2015 by Gary Myers. Published by Crown Archetype. Reprinted with

Intense workouts. Early bedtimes. Awards. Commercials. Celebrities. And an obsessive pursuit of football excellence. Welcome to the unbelievable life of J.J. Watt. By Michael Silver | Published Sept.

It was a slow Sunday morning in January, Papua New Guinea’s rainy season, and the sun was making a rare appearance, lighting up the green and gold island where I was staying. I decided to walk its per

The alchemy of remote work is that location becomes irrelevant; you can quite literally build a team, culture, and company without borders. At Help Scout , I’m proud of the remote culture we’ve create

I have this theory. I haven’t been able to prove it, but the evidence is racking up, so I wanted to share it with you. It goes like this: The larger the distance between people who build a product and

“As for how to write well,” writes Paul Graham, “here’s the short version: Write a bad version 1 as fast as you can; rewrite it over and over; cut out everything unnecessary.” It’s all too easy to fol

My problem with waking up started 17 years ago. I wish I could explain it to you in a way that doesn’t make me sound insecure and sensitive beyond all imagination, but I can’t. When I try, it takes th

The messages you send to customers need to work hard and work fast if they’re to engage with any real purpose. Attention is fleeting, your customers are busy and the swathes of digital detritus we’re

There’s a place motivation goes to die for web developers. It’s when something we have to do is simultaneously very, very hard and very, very uninteresting. You know, the corner of Hard and Boring Str

I’ve been known to launch a few projects. And one of the questions I get the most when launching something new is, “ how do you plan to monetize it? ”. Here’s the thing: most of the time, I didn’t hav

Every Monday morning, just before 9am, everyone on the team at Shopify gets the exact same email. Auto-generated and just two lines long it says something along the lines of: "Growth was X%. We hit/mi

In the competitive rat race that is “content,” has solving for the customer become a mere footnote? Discussions whirl around how the company can squeeze more out of every keystroke. More clicks, more

I’ve been following the multi-device/cloud photo management story for a long time, which means I’ve used about every platform out there for extended periods of time. None of them are perfect, but they

Illustration: Kagan McLeod By Jennifer Maloney Updated Aug. 14, 2015 3:07 pm ET Last fall, Andrew Vestal found himself rocking his baby daughter, Ada, back to sleep every morning between 3 a.m. and 5

Margaret E. Atwood Jul 27, 2015 · 27 min read By Margaret Atwood Animations by Carl Burton Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our co-conspirator, th

Thinking through remedies for the always-on, always-communicating world. Matt Galligan Aug 3, 2015 · 8 min read About the author: Hi. I’m Matt Galligan, a product design & strategy consultant that pre

I've spoken with a lot of folks who don't like sales, but want to make a living selling their own products. Here's the reality: if you want to earn an income from a product you've created - a web app,

I've been working remotely for several years now, either full-time for a company, or as a freelancer. I've worked remotely where there was an office, offices full of people, and fully distributed team

Creative work is rarely kind enough to grant the oh-so-satisfying feeling of unquestionable completion. There is no right. There is no wrong. There’s just you and your ideas. Intuition and feedback are often all you have to measure the final outcome, and it’s difficult to accept those as absolute.…

Christophe Porteneuve Jan 8, 2015 · 27 min read If you used submodules before, you certainly got a few scars to show for it, probably swearing off the dang thing. Submodules are hair-pulling for sure,

I built the Focus Course on 3×5 notecards. While there were other tools — such as highlighters, binder clips, the world’s greatest pen , iA Writer, MailChimp, WordPress, a Baron Fig notebook, and a st

The world of software occasionally produces fruitful rivalries between applications that try to solve the same problem with different approaches: Omnifocus vs. Things , Alfred Vs. Launchbar , Rdio vs.

Through his detailed and witty teardowns of the new user flow of popular products like Instagram, Netflix and Snapchat, at useronboard.com , Samuel Hulick has become the go-to authority on onboarding.

A ndrew Wiles gave a series of lectures cryptically titled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Galois Representations” at a mathematics conference in Cambridge, England, in June 0f 1993. His argument

If you’ve ever built something for other people you’ll know the buzz that comes from having real users. There’s nothing quite like knowing you made something from scratch that helped or entertained another person. Once you’ve made something used by other people it might seem like it doesn’t make…

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” So the saying goes, but it’s incredibly shortsighted. Great teachers amplify the work of everyone around them, and that’s only the beginning. Don’t fall fo

Creativity cannot rest on eureka moments; it is a process, designed to consistently bring abstract ideas into the tangible world. Start-ups have an interesting tie to creative work. With limited resou