Careers Work & Family Prioritize and ‘ABR—always be reading’ with digital apps and iPods Updated March 10, 2015 1:56 pm ET Many people are drowning in articles, papers, and books they need or want to

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When he was seven years old, Max-Hervé George was given a magic ticket by his father. It lets him turn back the clock, to invest with perfect hindsight week after week, steadily accumulating a fortune

What is the Islamic State ? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The

If the American dream has not quite shattered as the Millennial generation has come of age, it has certainly scattered. Living affordably and trying to climb higher than your parents did were once con

NASA has a better grasp of design than any other government agency. The U.S. space agency has several teams devoted solely to data visualization and graphics , and its materials have a consistent desi

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here . PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ We have what may

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Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Every new year brings a renewed sense of purpose and in the software world, promises to ship better software. At Atlassian, we rel

Consider a few surprising and optimistic facts for the new year: nationwide, independent bookstores have grown by about twenty per cent since 2009; meanwhile, American craft breweries collectively now

How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW) Published in The Message · 15 min read · Jan 21, 2015 -- #BreakTheInternet? On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightli

Examining the Advantages of Node.js for Web App Development Widely used across all industries, Node.js is an open source runtime environment at the heart of web development projects that require super

From this post by Rands, titled “The QA Mindset”: At the current gig, there’s no QA department. […] My concern is that the absence of QA is the absence of a champion for aspects of software development that everyone agrees are important, but often no one is willing to own. Unit tests, automation,…

Paul Graham wrote Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In . But I find it hard to believe that he got both programmer quality and supply & demand so wrong. Actually, that’s an understatement. I am a

“Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed. It’s the magic inflection point when a company becomes too big (even if only psychologically) for any single em

The success of many startups can be attributed to founders knowing their target market inside and out . As companies grow and new staff members arrive into a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, th

8 min read · Jan 5, 2015 -- I was recently quoted as saying , “I don’t give a shit” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you’ll note there’s a big “if” before my not givin

If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids. It's likely they won't be biological creatures at all, but rather, advanced robots that ou

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On the Environment Pollution Around the World: A Matter of Choices A view of the Eiffel Tower through smog in March. Several regions of France experienced high levels of particulate pollution that mon

This fall, JetBlue airline finally threw in the towel. For years, the company was among the last holdouts in the face of an industry trend toward smaller seats, higher fees, and other forms of unpleas

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By John Allspaw May 22, 2012 Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought I might give some detail on how that act

Before you hire a designer, set up the situation this person needs to be effective. Bringing any employee into an unprepared environment where they don’t have the tools or authority to succeed is unfa

5 min read · Feb 12, 2015 -- Originally published at www.helloerik.com on December 15, 2012 . UX has become a neologism. When something has “good UX” it is an implied meaning of having the core compon

Bill (not his real name, and I’ve fuzzed some details to protect his identity) is a software engineer on the East Coast, who, at the time (between 2011 and 2014) of this story, had recently turned 30 and wanted to see if he could enter a higher weight class on the job market. In order to best assess…

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Advanced tips for using gulp.js Lars Kappert May 5, 2014 · 6 min read After getting excited about gulp.js , at some point you need more than the shiny but basic examples. This post discusses some comm

Tim Cook’s instruction from Steve Jobs was clear: Don’t let Apple become paralyzed like Disney did in the wake of Walt Disney’s death, endlessly asking what the esteemed founder would do in any given

I enjoyed Brian Chesky’s recent post Don’t Fuck Up The Culture , where he proclaims to the employees of Airbnb the importance of culture in everything they do. I like Airbnb and it’s nice to see a fou

Hey team, Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture. It occurred to me that before this meeting, I should write you a short letter on why culture i

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Apptimize Jan 30, 2014 I’ve been a personal fan of Etsy for a long time (half the art in my house was found while lying in bed with the Etsy app on my iPad). I’ve always been impressed with how they’v

Gojko Adzic Gojko Adzic Home Workshops Books Articles Talks About Subscribe Hi, I'm Gojko, and I help ambitious teams align software delivery with business goals, with the help of Impact Mapping and S

E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 you don’t