There is no higher God in Silicon Valley than growth. No sacrifice too big for its craving altar. As long as you keep your curve exponential, all your sins will be forgotten at the exit. It’s through this exponential lens that eating the world becomes not just a motto for software at large, but a…

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned. The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app…

There are few things I hate more than a smarmy sales experience. You know the ones — high pressure, hidden costs, and with zero interest in your actual happiness. Basically, your typical car salesperson. Yet I’m fascinated by sales in general. Knowing how to sell is an amazing and valuable skill. So…

Human Touch Social isolation is a growing epidemic, one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times My patient and I both knew he was dying. Not the long kind of dying that stretches on for months or years. He…

It’s on the tip of your brain. An idea. You think you’re onto something. You’ve figured something out that nobody else realizes. What should you do next? Write an idea treatment. I’ll explain how. I hear from people who say they have ideas all the time. They say stuff like this: “I think I want to…

Google Analytics is deleting all of your historical data On July 1 2024, you won’t be able to use or even see your UA data in Google Analytics, and worse, you won’t be able to export it. Apr 3, 2024 newsHow to Enable and Use Link Tracking Protection in iOS 17 Discover how iOS 17’s Link Tracking…

How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating. Naturally, this is the part where everything goes horribly wrong.…

We do not live in time. Being is more, so much more, than the tickings of a clock More than worn-out calendars . Time is not linear: No beginning No end.We swim in eternities.It is now, as it was then As shall forever be.Every now and then, we connect with moments, place, and people who remind us of…

It’s really interesting when a professional tries to explain their complex work to a layperson. Here’s a good example — watch theoretical physicist Richard Feynman talk about magnets: Feynman: Magnets FUN TO IMAGINE 4 But see NEW UPDATED file at https://tinyurl.com/ycphc432 This is the original…

On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her god-sister from school when she spotted an unlocked kid’s blue Huffy bicycle and a silver Razor scooter. Borden and a friend grabbed the bike and scooter and tried to ride them down the street in the Fort Lauderdale suburb…

In 2004, the British chemist Chris Dobson speculated that there might be a universal elixir out there that could combat not just alpha-synuclein for Parkinson’s but the amyloids caused by many protein-misfolding diseases at once. Remarkably, in that same year an Israeli scientist named Beka Solomon…

We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. In a post last year, we laid out the human lifespan visually. By years: By months: And by weeks: While working on that post, I also made a days chart, but it seemed a bit much, so I left it out. But fuck it. The days…

(Photo: Photograph by Franck Bohbot. Institute for New York Magazine. Special thanks to Ziegfeld Theater/Bow Tie Cinemas) In this crowded city of 8.4 million—in fact, the most crowded New York has ever been—one of the great and rare pleasures is finding solitude, whether on the subway or at the…

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In my opinion, there are two conversations that are a waste of time. One is “should designers learn to code”. The other is, “should designers learn the language of business.” The first is easy to answer. Architects learn to pour concrete. Painters learn to stretch canvas. You just have to know your…

My two-year-old daughter is going through a “Why?” phase. I’m not too worried about it, though. I had plenty of practice when my five-year-old went through the same thing, and through trial and error I figured out the best way to survive it. So here it is: the only way to get a preschooler to stop…

You are an awful developer. In fact, to call yourself a developer is a complete fabrication. You're not formally trained in code or capable of building anything more sophisticated than a baseline website. You're a self-taught hobbyist whose curiosity has led you far enough to be dangerous. You are a…

My grandmother used to say, “don’t put off to tomorrow what you can do today.” Tomorrow will have enough craziness of its own, right? All through high school and college, I pretty much lived the opposite of my grandmother’s advice. Why do now what I can put off until the very last minute? To play…

I have read two books more than a 100 times, for different motives and with different consequences. Hamlet I read a 100 times for my dissertation, The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse a 100 times for comfort. The experience is distinct from all other kinds of reading. I’m calling it centireading. I…

Ev Williams 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 giving of said shit. As quoted: If you think about the impact Twitter has on the world versus…

Note from Arthur Obermayer, friend of the author: This story is part of our January/February 2015 issue See the rest of the issue Subscribe In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of nuclear…

Private Lives: Personal essays on the news of the world and the news of our lives. On the afternoon before my college graduation in 1999, there was a ceremony for graduates who were getting department prizes. My father was a New York City tunnel worker (a “sandhog”) and at that time he was working…

Illiteracy is the inability to read and write. Though the percent of sufferers has halved in the last 35 years, currently 15% of the world has this affliction. Innumeracy is the inability to apply simple numerical concepts. The rate of innumeracy is unknown but chances are that it affects over 50%…

Make It Sing Devin Coldewey 7:00 PM PST · February 9, 2014 I have a Jeep about half my own age, and despite the creaks in both our joints, we somehow manage to create a semblance of grace now and then. The vibration of the engine, transmitted through my the bones of my foot as it lies on the clutch…

This isn’t my advice, it comes from the 1973 book How to Get Rich Slowly, But Almost Surely: Adventures in Decision-Making by William Morris. “It’s foolish,” Morris writes, “to suppose that anyone could give you a set of rules for making … decisions which you would actually follow. Something of…

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Your dream job will only exist if you get out there and work your nethers off and build it. No one can give it to you. You can’t be hired for it. There is no interview process and it won’t magically appear one day. A dream that is your dream can’t be taken or provided. If you want your dream job the…

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iStockphoto You’re driving to work one morning when you find yourself stuck in a traffic jam. You’re sitting in math class, listening to your teacher explain the afternoon’s lesson. You’re labeling envelopes to send out party invitations, letter after letter after letter. What do these seemingly…

Credit...Emily Flake BENJAMIN GOERING does not look like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, talk like him or inspire the same controversy. But he does apparently think like him. Two years ago, Mr. Goering was a sophomore at the University of Kansas, studying computer science and philosophy and feeling…

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Decision-Making Decision-Making President Barack Obama has the hardest job in the world. So how does he do it? Tips on getting a head start, making decisions, and ignoring your critics. 0 Forty-four American presidents have managed to navigate the complicated roles and responsibilities of the…