The Documentation System The Grand Unified Theory of Documentation – David Laing There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. They are: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and…

The first question I ask when putting together a communications and media plan is: Who am I trying to talk to, and what do I want them to do? It’s the hill I will die on. It’s the soapbox I will stand on forever. It’s the bee that lives in my bonnet. It’s all those other weird idioms I can’t think…

The most influential companies in the world put all their energy into getting us to click, react, and consume. If you work on a computer, procrastination awaits you everywhere, all the time. How do you beat it and get things done? There is procrastination1 as in everyday trouble to get started.…

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In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience. In this post, I’m sharing what went well, what I…

There are several types of work where AI can be particularly useful, given the current capabilities and limitations of LLMs. Though this list is based in science, it draws even more from experience. Like any form of wisdom, using AI well requires holding opposing ideas in mind: it can be…

Vega Gupta’s​ wedding was a four-day, three-million dollar extravaganza held at a five-star hotel in Sun City, South Africa, in May 2013. Two hundred guests arrived from New Delhi on a chartered Airbus that was allowed to land at a nearby military airbase. Vega’s uncle Atul Gupta met the guests, who…

The New Yorker Interview Ahead of the release of his new book, “The Wok,” the food columnist reflects on kitchen-bro culture, who gets credit for recipes, and how not to be an asshole. February 27, 2022 Photographs by Grant Hindsley for The New Yorker Since time immemorial, a person who wanted to…

Am I attempting to mind-read somebody else's intentions in this situation? How could I give myself what I'm hoping this other person will give me? Is this thought arising from shame or fear? What is a

Superorganizers The CEO with an Empty Calendar How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings ♥ 178 Aug 11, 2020 Superorganizers How Josh Kaufman Does Research The author of The Person

Bob of the Easy Method Driving School has spent his entire life teaching his students how to drive -- and there's nothing he loves to do more The car horn is like a lovely word defiled. It was never meant to be profane. It was never meant to be deployed only in a rage or in a hurry by our dumb and…

What a therapist, scholar, monk, C.E.O. and others can teach us about bringing our best to everything we do, every day. Credit...M Fatchurofi By Feb. 24, 2020 By the end of the year, I felt tired and overwhelmed, ready to peel away onionskin layers of regret. That’s most likely why, when I wandered…

Hey Casey. Thanks for writing this column, it has helped me get into powerlifting, which in turn has helped change my relationship with exercise. Yay! I started lifting a couple of years ago and roped my husband into being my gym partner. We did the math and realized it made sense to get a squat…

Like most people, I like to sit on the bus, stare out at the zombies drooling over their phones, and feel smugly superior. I see their bored, lifeless eyes and pity these sheeple whose lives have been ruined in service of Big Tech profits. This lasts for about thirty seconds before I get bored. The…

Literature is the original “inter-net,” woven of a web of allusions, references, and citations that link different works together into an endless rabbit hole of discovery. Case in point: Last week’s wonderful field guide to creativity, Dancing About Architecture, mentioned in passing an intriguing…

Print Edition Home Articles Essays Text Messages Q&As Videos Podcasts Audio Essays Authors About Print Edition Articles | Dec 5, 2017 The Silent Theology of Islamic Art Shaykh Lutfollah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran Read Time | Oludamini Ogunnaike University of Virginia Oludamini Ogunnaike’s research…

Edit: Thank you to the 100k people who have read this piece. It looks like many people are struggling with the concept of "greatness". Let's continue to support one another on the journey there. Over the years, we’ve all encountered our fair share of successes and failures. As I’ve acquired more of…

Modern Love When it comes to dating, I’d rather not think about race. But that’s been hard to avoid. Credit...Brian Rea By March 29, 2019 Leer en español O.K., let me just get to it. I think I broke up with my last girlfriend because she’s white. Actually, no, I definitely broke up with her because…

What makes a great manager isn’t the problems they solve, but the questions they ask. Start with these 16 questions here. An employee comes to you and says, “I have a problem.” If you’re trying to be a great manager, what do you do? Your initial instinct might be to roll up your sleeves. “Time to be…

Pull-ups are my favorite exercise of all time. But what if you can’t do a pull-up yet? The answer: read this ultimate guide on getting your first pull–up ASAP! We have helped hundreds of Online Coaching Clients get their first pull-up, and we’ll cover our exact strategies below! As part of our…

Want to build muscle like this guy? (Leopard print unitard optional but encouraged) In this guide, we’ll provide step-by-step instructions that will help you start building muscle immediately. Like, today. We’ll explore: That may seem like a lot of topics to cover. DON’T PANIC! If you want to build…

This post is also available in: 简体中文 (Chinese (Simplified)) The 737 Max was born in the Admirals Club Lounge at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. On July 20, 2011, American Airlines was announcing it was buying 460 Airbus and Boeing aircraft to renew its fleet. One hundred were for a…

Spend 47 days in the art world with Seen. Jerry Saltz, New York’s art critic, as Salvador Dalí, based on a photograph by Philippe Halsman. Photo: Photo by Marvin Orellana. Photo Illustration by Joe Darrow. Art is for anyone. It’s just not for everyone. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist…

Being told no is inevitable in most creative endeavors. But maybe I could win by losing. Dec. 14, 2018 Credit...Allyson Leigh Peck By Ms. Winter is a comedian. My dog wags her tail whenever I say no. Bingo is a rescue, and I’ll never know where she picked up the idea that “no” means “yes,” but it’s…

The Crisis of Intimacy in the Age of Digital Connectivity The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.” October 15, 2018 Cultural Studies Science & Technology Support LARB’s writers and staff. All donations made through December 31 will be matched up to $100,000. Support…

Dept. of Disputation Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds. July 16, 2018 Some polemicists are radically pessimistic about the consequences of pessimism.Illustration by Geoff McFetridge Branko Milanović grew up in Yugoslavia, during the nineteen-sixties and seventies. He…

Stewart Butterfield 12 min read· Feb 17, 2014 -- The memo below was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack, on July 31st, 2013. It had been a little under seven months since development began and was two weeks before the launch of Slack’s ‘Preview Release’. It is presented verbatim, as…

Opinion Credit...Adam Higton In a particularly low moment a few years back, after arriving friendless and lonely from Britain to live in the United States, I downloaded a “happiness app” onto my phone. It was surprisingly hard to choose one. There were close to a thousand bliss-promising options in…

from the book “Hell Yeah or No”: Art is useless, and so am I 2017-03-10 Art is useless by definition. If it was useful, it would be a tool. For the past twenty years, I was obsessed with being useful. That one measure drove all of my daily decisions: “How can I be the most useful to the most people…

The Five-Tool Designer As someone who has managed and worked with designers for most of my adult life, I get a lot of calls from people looking to check references on someone I’ve worked with or find out from me if there are other designers they should be talking to. When I think about the range of…